Perpustakaan Digital ITB

Global climate change is one of the most important issues of contemporary environmental safety. Quantifying regional or global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and searching for appropriate mitigation measures have become a relatively hot issue in international global climate change studies. The high temporal and spatial variability of GHG emissions from soils makes their field measurement at regional or national scales impractical. To develop emission factors for a wide range of management practices such as those given in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Tier I methodology are often considered as a convenient technique to estimate emissions, but these can result in substantial errors when applied to specific geographical regions. Accordingly, considering the complexity of greenhouse gas production in soils, process-based models are required to quantify and predict the GHG emissions, and also interpret the intricate relationships among the gas emissions, the environmental factors and the ecological drivers....