The use of halophytes to sequester carbon

Autor:	M. W. Olsen, Edward P. Glenn, Louis F. Pitelka
Rok vydání:	1992
Předmět:	Irrigation Environmental Engineering Soil salinity Ecology Agroforestry Ecological Modeling Biomass Carbon sequestration Pollution Carbon cycle Energy crop Halotolerance Environmental Chemistry Environmental science Arable land Water Science and Technology
Zdroj:	Water, Air, & Soil Pollution. 64:251-263
ISSN:	1573-2932 0049-6979
DOI:	10.1007/bf00477105
Popis:	Wild salt tolerant plants, halophytes, could be grown on 130 x 106 ha of potentially arable land in the world’s coastal deserts, inland salt deserts and areas of secondary salinization in irrigation districts. Halophytes have potential as biomass crops to directly sequester up to 0.7 Gt C, similar to tree plantations, or they can play an indirect role in absorbing C from the atmosphere by providing food, fodder and energy crops from a new land base. To the extent new cropland can be developed from unused saline land, further land clearing and loss of C storage in forest fallow and old growth forests can be spared, thereby adding to the carbon sequestering potential of all usable ecosystems.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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