The gain lies in the details: Soil respiration-temperature-moisture relationship: Addition to global data bank
Igboji, Paul Ola ; Igboji, Paul Ola
Synopsis "The gain lies in the details: Soil respiration-temperature-moisture relationship: Addition to global data bank"
Sciences and technologies in the era of globalisation have gone extra mile in making non patented data and information accessible and most often free of charge to fellow scientists, technologists and the entire public. For civilised worlds they are vital for national and economic planning. In the era of internet, developed as world wide web; information and communication technologies have assisted researchers, scientists, publishers and consumers share on global commodity of the brain, mind and soul. It is on this note that this paper delves into detailed field and laboratory data generated on soil respiration-temperature-moisturerelationships as an addition to global data bank. They are very crucial forcomparative studies and for developing networking geared towards abating greenhouse gases emissions holocaust. The world is sitting on a keg of gunpowder that is neglected in pursuit of non-nuclear proliferation, nuclear accident and nuclear war. Already, there are global warming and climatic change wars raging all over the planet. Let us develop and share data and information that can warn the government and citizenry on scientific and technological dangers of the world that are similar to nuclear holocaust. It is a problem of developed and undeveloped worlds as nature knows no boundary akin to territory boundary protections.But the debate is how are the data generated by researchers and scientists stored and shared to encourage global work on combating or mitigating global warming and climatic change. Data on soil respiration-temperature-moisture is the easiest, quickest and most affordable all over the world even to lay farmers. They can be generated and shared on hourly and daily basis to alert farmers, agriculturists, government and policy makers on the trade-offs arising from human civilization, agriculture, climate, climatic change, ozone layer depletion, global warming, melting of arctic ice, rise in sea level, tsunami and potential Armageddon of our callous activities and neglect of the environment. The cleansing of our civilization mess must be a concern of everyone including the baby in the poo. Igboji et al (2015) described diurnal and seasonal variations in soil respiration in parkland grassland by embarking on hourly, daily, monthly and seasonal measurements of soil respiration, temperature, moisture and added laboratory measurements to explain the effects of natural environmental parameters that militate accurate field estimations. In view of world area of agricultural and non agricultural land that need to be covered and the drudgery associated with agriculture and soil sampling; there is a need for sharing of available data and information generated in all nooks and crannies of the world that are not only limited to fractions that are shared in journals, periodicals, magazines and books. This may seem embarrassing and an arduous task in view of time and money invested by researchers and scientists. However, the selling of brain, mind and soul commodity free to the world irrespective of time and cost remains the option for everyone in this epileptic world. It may go a long way in saving impending disasters and catastrophes associated with greenhouse gases emissions, global warming and climatic change and their associate holocaust; instead of narrowing attention to terrorism, nuclear proliferation, nuclear accident and nuclear war as the end point of the world. These our orchestrated end point may be triggered automatically by climate change instead of terrorist and world super powers. The University of Essex, England Wivenhoe parkland grassland was monitored on hourly, daily, monthly and seasonal basis for two years. The data generated is hereby presented to the scientific and general public for perusal and necessary action.
