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The next meeting (already notified by Talitha) is on Tuesday 7 July, 1pm, second-floor lunch area, Soil Science building, UWA.
The article to be mused upon is :Piao S, Fang J, Ciais P, Peylin P, Huang Y, Sitch S, Wang T. 2009. Carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems in China. Nature, 458:1009-1014.
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Musings on:Stewart CE, Paustian K, Conant RT, Plant AF, Six A. 2007. Soil carbon saturation: concept, evidence and evaluation. Biogeochemistry 86:19-31.
On first glance I thought that this was too obvious to be significant - if carbon input fluxes (e.g. litter fall) are increased (in a single step), then of course soil carbon will increase, but ...
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This one's from 21 May 2007: Davidson EA, Janssens IA (2006) Temperature sensitivity of soil carbon
decomposition and feedbacks to climate change. Nature,
440:165-173.
A useful article on the face of it, especially in light of Article 3.4 of Kyoto which allows for carbon credits on the basis of increased soil carbon storage. It provides a ...
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Article for 23 April 2007:Kelleher BP, Simpson AJ, 2006. Humic substances in soils: are they really chemically distinct? Environ.
Sci. Technol. 40, 4605-4611.
For a long time it has been assumed that the humic substances are a distinct class of organic materials in soils and other natural systems, many workers believing them to be poorly ordered ...
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Article for 26 March 2007:
Meir P, Cox P, Grace J. 2006.The influence of terrestrial ecosystems on
climate. Trends
in Ecology and Evolution 21:254-260.
This is a review article that promised a stimulating discussion of the global function of soils and their response to one of the most significant (or at least newsworthy) ...
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Article for 7 May 2007:
Kennedy M, Droser M, Mayer LM, Pevear D, Mrofka D. 2006. Late Precambrian
oxygenation: inception of the clay mineral factory. Science 311, 1446-1449.
Quote: ''...the advent of soils sufficiently biotic for clay formation likely predated complex terrestrial ecosystems.''
Many articles emphasise the ...
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The UWA club barista was happy to sell coffee to non-members on the promise that a card-carrying one would soon arrive, and so our first meeting began.
After the inevitable housekeeping issues were covered, we were discussing:Marris, E. 2006. Putting the carbon back: Black is the new green. Nature 442:624-626 (with supporting information from ...
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