Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Geomorphology and terrestrial carbon cycling - Special Issue, October 2012

Guest Editors: Martin Evans, Timothy Quine, Nikolaus Kuhn

The papers in this special issue demonstrate the growing engagement of geomorphologists with carbon cycle research, most often in interdisciplinary teams. This is expected to be fertile ground for research in the near future not least because uncertainty in the response of the soil carbon store is second only to uncertainty in emissions as an impediment to climate change prediction over the coming century (Meir et al., 2006). The impact of geomorphological contributions to carbon cycle research is likely to be greatest where the geomorphology is driving disequilibrium through change in process rates in response to climate or land-use change.

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Geomorphology and terrestrial carbon cycling†
Martin Evans, Timothy Quine, Nikolaus Kuhn

Carbon dioxide fluxes and DOC concentrations of eroding blanket peat gullies
Gareth D. Clay, Simon Dixon, Martin G. Evans, James G. Rowson, Fred Worrall

Model based analysis of lateral and vertical soil carbon fluxes induced by soil redistribution processes in a small agricultural catchment
Verena Dlugoß, Peter Fiener, Kristof Van Oost, Karl Schneider

Towards constraining the magnitude of global agricultural sediment and soil organic carbon fluxes
Sebastian Doetterl, Kristof Van Oost, Johan Six

Soil erosion in New Zealand is a net sink of CO2
John R. Dymond

Landslide impact on organic carbon cycling in a temperate montane forest
Robert G. Hilton, Patrick Meunier, Niels Hovius, Peter J. Bellingham, Albert Galy

Morphological change of natural pipe outlets in blanket peat
J. Holden, R. P. Smart, K. J. Dinsmore, A. J. Baird, M. F. Billett, P. J. Chapman

Effects of soil compaction, rain exposure and their interaction on soil carbon dioxide emission
Agata Novara, Alona Armstrong, Luciano Gristina, Kirk T. Semple, John N. Quinton

Fluvial carbon flux from headwater peatland streams: significance of particulate carbon flux
R. R. Pawson, M. G. Evans, T. E. H. A. Allot

Evaluating the impact of soil redistribution on the in situ mineralization of soil organic carbon
Hendrik Van Hemelryck, Gerard Govers, Kristof Van Oost, Roel Merckx

Carbon fluxes from eroding peatlands – the carbon benefit of revegetation following wildfire
F. Worrall, J. G. Rowson, M. G. Evans, R. Pawson, S. Daniels, A. Bonn

Diagnosis of river basins as CO2 sources or sinks subject to sediment movement
Yao Yue, Jinren Ni, Alistair G. L. Borthwick, Chiyuan Miao