Carbon sequestration in agricultural soils : a multidisciplinary approach to innovative methods / Alessandro Piccolo, editor.

'Chemistry'--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. The nature of soil organic matter and innovative soil managements to fight global changes and maintain agricultural productivity -- 2. The Kyoto Protocol and European and Italian regulations in agriculture -- 3. Field plots and crop yields under innovative methods of carbon sequestration in soil -- 4. Carbon sequestration in soils by hydrophobic protection and in situ catalyzed photo-polymerization of soil organic matter (SOM): chemical and physical-chemical aspects of SOM in field plots -- 5. The stable isotopes approach to study C and N sequestration processes in a plant-soil system -- 6. Impact of innovative agricultural practices of carbon sequestration on soil microbial community -- 7. Effects of methods of carbon sequestration in soil on biochemical indicators of soil quality -- 8. Biological and biotechnological evaluation of carbon dynamics in field experiments -- 9. Measurements of CO₂ and N₂O emissions in the agricultural field experiments of the MESCOSAGR project -- 10. Effects of carbon sequestration methods on soil respiration and root systems in microcosm experiments and in vitro studies -- 11. New modeling approach to describe and predict carbon sequestration dynamics in agricultural soils.