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  • DOI: 10.4172/2157-7617.1000454

What Should we do in the Context of Land Use Change Occurring Frequently in China?

Mingxuan Cai1,2,3, Wenbing Tan2,3, Lei Wang2,3*, Beidou Xi2,3*, Lieyu Zhang2,3 and Huili Liu1
1College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin, P.R. China
2State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, , Beijing, P.R. China
3State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Simulation and Control of Groundwater Pollution, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, , Beijing, P.R. China
*Corresponding Author (s) : Lei Wang, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, P.R. China, Tel: +86 10 51095613, Email: wanglei01@craes.org.cn
Beidou Xi, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, P.R. China, Tel: +86 10 51095613, Email: xibeidou@yeah.net

Received Date: Feb 09, 2018 / Accepted Date: Mar 01, 2018 / Published Date: Mar 06, 2018

Abstract

China’s effort to mitigate soil organic carbon (SOC) loss caused by rapid land use changes over the last two decades faces great challenges. Generally, land use change projects in China have been performed without considering the mechanisms involved in the link between land use change and SOC dynamic. Such situation will likely increase the climatic and environmental risks brought by land use changes. In this paper, we illustrate why most studies over the past several decades in China have been unable to provide significant guiding information for what kind of land use can be adopted to benefit the climate and ecological environments. In addition, we recommend the combination of soil organic matter fractionation with radiocarbon assessment, which researchers are working on to better predict the dynamic trends of SOC under land use change and present several proposals in regard to how to sequester more carbon in soils after land use change.

Keywords: Land use change; Radiocarbons; Fractionation of soil organic matter; Soil carbon sequestration

Citation: Cai M, Tan W, Wang L, Xi B, Zhang L, et al. (2018) What Should we do in the Context of Land Use Change Occurring Frequently in China? J Earth Sci Clim Change 9: 454. Doi: 10.4172/2157-7617.1000454

Copyright: © 2018 Cai M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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