1 The Nature of Soil Organic Matter and Innovative Soil
Managements to Fight Global Changes and Maintain
Agricultural Productivity .................................... 1
Alessandro Piccolo
2 The Kyoto Protocol and European and Italian Regulations
in Agriculture .............................................. 21
Davide Savy, Antonio Nebbioso, Rocío Dánica Cóndor, and
Marina Vitullo
3 Field Plots and Crop Yields Under Innovative Methods of
Carbon Sequestration in Soil ................................ 39
Carlo Grignani, Francesco Alluvione, Chiara Bertora, Laura
Zavattaro, Massimo Fagnano, Nunzio Florentino, Fabrizio
Quaglietta Chiarandа, Mariana Amato, Francesco Lupo, and
Rocco Bochicchio
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 ............................... 61
Riccardo Spaccini and Alessandro Piccolo
5 The Stable Isotopes Approach to Study С and N
Sequestration Processes in a Plant-Soil System ............. 107
Giuseppe Celano, Francesco Alluvione, Mostafa Abdel Aziz
Ali Mohamed, and Riccardo Spaccini
6 Impact of Innovative Agricultural Practices of Carbon
Sequestration on Soil Microbial Community .................. 145
Valeria Ventorino, Anna De Marco, Olimpia Pepe, Amalia
Virzo De Santo, and Giancarlo Moschetti
7 Effects of Methods of Carbon Sequestration in Soil on
Biochemical Indicators of Soil Quality ..................... 179
Edoardo Puglisi and Marco Trevisan
8 Biological and Biotechnological Evaluation of Carbon
Dynamics in Field Experiments .............................. 209
Carmine Crecchio, Silvia Pascazio, and Pacifico Ruggiero
9 Measurements of CO2 and N2O Emissions in the Agricultural
Field Experiments of the MESCOSAGR Project ................. 229
Angelo Fierro and Annachiara Forte
10 Effects of Carbon Sequestration Methods on Soil
Respiration and Root Systems in Microcosm Experiments and
In Vitro Studies ........................................... 261
Antonio Gelsomino, Maria Rosaria Panuccio, Agostino
Sorgonа, Maria Rosa Abenavoli, and Maurizio Badiani
11 New Modeling Approach to Describe and Predict Carbon
Sequestration Dynamics in Agricultural Soils ............... 291
Stefano Mazzoleni, Giuliano Bonanomi, Francesco Giannino,
Guido Incerti, Daniela Piermatteo, Riccardo Spaccini, and
Alessandro Piccolo
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