Presentation Year

2016

Depreciated Participant

Tess McDermott SwansonEnvironmental ScienceUndergraduate Student

College or Department

Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

The pedosphere is an often overlooked resource already affected by and contributing to climate change. For example, soil stores a certain amount of carbon, and biological processes in soil emit the powerful greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O). The amount of nutrients, microorganisms, and moisture that soils hold are all affected by atmospheric CO2 levels and surface temperatures. Soils are an extremely important part of the earth’s biosphere, and they can be managed more effectively to mitigate their effects to the climate and the changing climate’s effects on them. I will explore these impacts and relate them to primary productivity, food security, human health, and land desertification.

Permission to Publish Work

Yes

Node ID

146

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