Understanding Pedologic-Hydrology Relationships Across the Landscape: Carbon Accounting and Denitrification.

Pedologists often examine soil morphology across a gradient of hydrologic conditions to develop an understanding of the pedologic-hydrology related processes and functions. Over the past five years members of multistate project NE-1021 (http://www.caf.wvu.edu/plsc/ne1021/index.htm) have been investigating these relationships over a range of hydrologic conditions within upland, wetland, and subaqueous settings.  This paper examines these relationships for understanding soil functions related to carbon storage, carbon sequestration, and denitrification. Examples across the landscape range from upland (agriculture, forest, anthropic), wetland (riparian, tidal marsh), and subaqueous (coastal lagoon) settings.