Soil Carbon Capture Sequestration: 
The Ecology & Function of Soil

Restoring Biodiversity to Soils

Soil can function as a carbon source, adding carbon to the atmosphere, or as a carbon sink, removing CO2 from the atmosphere. The dynamics of the source-sink equation are largely determined by land management.

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Over millennia a highly effective carbon cycle has evolved, in which the capture, storage, transfer, release and recapture of biochemical energy in the form of carbon compounds repeats over and over. The health of the soil - and the vitality  of plants, animals and people - depends on the effective functioning of this cycle.

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The potential for reversing the net movement of CO2 to the atmosphere through improved plant and soil management is significant. Indeed, managing vegetative cover in ways that enhance the capacity of soil to sequester and store large volumes of atmospheric carbon in a stable form offers a practical and almost immediate solution to some of the most challenging issues currently facing humankind.

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The use of fossil fuel based chemicals supporting monocrop practices have also caused significant harm to the soil microbiome, resulting in loss of topsoil, injury to biodiversity, waterways also causing disruption of water cycles. These are unsustainable coonditions that put food production at risk and further harm to climate conditions needed to sustain a productive Ag industry.

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