Table of Contents
Preface *Carbon Dioxide: its Importance, its Sources and its Sinks, D S Reay and J GraceTerrestrial Vegetation as a Carbon Dioxide Sink, G Hymus, Northern Arizona University, USA and R Valentini, Universitá della Tuscia, Italy *The Oceanic Sink for Carbon Dioxide, C L Sabine and R A Feely, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, USA *The Soil Carbon Dioxide Sink, P Smith, University of Aberdeen, UK and P Ineson, University of York, UK *Implications of Increasing the Soil Carbon Store: Calculating the Net Greenhouse Gas Balance of No-Till Farming, R L Lemke and H H Janzen, Agriculture and AgriFood Canada, Canada *Geological Carbon Sinks, A Ridgewell, University of British Columbia, USA and U Edwards, BHP Billiton Petroleum, USA *Artificial Carbon Sinks: Utilization of CO2 for the Synthesis of Chemicals and Technological Applications, M Aresta and A Dibenedetto, University of Bari, Italy *The Prospects for Biological Carbon Sinks in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Systems, J Reilly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, B Felzer, D Kickligher, and J Melillo, The Ecosystems Center, USA, H Tian Auburn University, USA and M Asadoorian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA *Methane: its Importance, its Sources and its Sinks, D S Reay, K A Smith and N Hewitt *The Soil Methane Sink, P F Dunfield, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, New Zealand *The Atmospheric Methane Sink, D E Shallcross, University of Bristol, UK, M A K Khalil and C Butenhoff, Portland State University, USA *Artificial Methane Sinks, A De Visscher, P Boeckx and O Van Cleemput, University of Ghent, Belgium *Nitrous Oxide: its Importance, its Sources and its Sinks, D S Reay, N Hewitt and K A Smith *The Stratospheric Sinks of Nitrous Oxide, C L Butenhoff and M A K Khalil *Sinks for N2O at the Earth's surface, C Kroeze, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, L Bouwman, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Netherlands and C P Slomp, Utrecht University, The Netherlands *Cross-cutting Issues and New Directions, D S Reay *The impact of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on the exchange of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane from European forests, W de Vries, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands, K Butterbach B, Institute for Meteorology and Climte Research, Germany, H Denier van der Gon, TNO Environment and Geosciences, The Netherlands and O Oenema, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands