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1 . Basic concepts: Global change and carbon cycle, the position of soils and agriculture - Soil carbon sequestration - Influence of soil erosion on carbon dynamics in the world - Modeling soil erosion induced carbon fluxes between soil and atmosphere on agricultural land using SPEROS-C. -- 2 -- Erosion at the plot scale: Soil carbon erosion and its selectivity at the plot scale in tropical and mediterranean regions - Organic carbon in forest Andosols of the Canary islands and effects of deforestation on carbon losses by water erosion - Soil carbon dynamics and losses by erosion and leaching in banana cropping systems with different practices (Nitisol, Martinique, west India) - Influence and land use, soils, and cultural practices on erosion, erided carbon, and soil carbon stocks at t[...]

1 . Basic concepts: Global change and carbon cycle, the position of soils and agriculture - Soil carbon sequestration - Influence of soil erosion on carbon dynamics in the world - Modeling soil erosion induced carbon fluxes between soil and atmosphere on agricultural land using SPEROS-C. -- 2 -- Erosion at the plot scale: Soil carbon erosion and its selectivity at the plot scale in tropical and mediterranean regions - Organic carbon in forest Andosols of the Canary islands and effects of deforestation on carbon losses by water erosion - Soil carbon dynamics and losses by erosion and leaching in banana cropping systems with different practices (Nitisol, Martinique, west India) - Influence and land use, soils, and cultural practices on erosion, erided carbon, and soil carbon stocks at the plot scale in the mediterranean mountains of northern Algeria - carbon, nitrogen, and fine particles removed by water erosion on crops, fallows, and mixed plots in sudanese
savannas (Burkina Faso) - Effect of a legume cover crop on carbon storage and erosion in an utisol under maize cultivation in southern Benin - Organic carbon associated with eroded sediments from micro-plots under natural rainfall from cultivated pastures on a clayey ferralsol in the Cerrados (Brazil) - Runoff, soil, and soil organic carbon losses within a small sloping-land catchment of Laos under shifting, cultivation - Soil erodibility control and soil carbon losses undes short-term tree fallows in western Kenya - Soil and carbon losses under rainfall simulation from two contrasting soils undes maize-improved fallows rotation in eastern Zambia. -- 3 -- . Carbon transfer in rivers: Origin and behaviors of carbon species in world rivers - Carbon, nitrogen, and stable carbon isotope composition and land-use changes in rivers of Brazil - Organic carbon transported by the equatorial rivers, example of Congo-Zaire and Amazon basins - Soil carbon stock and river
carbon fluxes in humid tropical environments: the Nyong river basin (south Cameroon) - Organic carbon in the sediments of hill dams in a semiarid mediteranean area - Monitoring soil organic carbon erosion with isotopic tracers, two case studies on cultivated tropical catchments with steep slopes (Laos, Venezuela).