Klaus Lorentz

Klaus Lorenz, PhD

Carbon Management & Sequestration Center

School of Environment & Natural Resources

The Ohio State University

2021 Coffey Road

Columbus, OH 43210

USA

E-mail: lorenz.59@osu.edu

The biologist and agricultural scientist Klaus Lorenz is Research Scientist/Assistant Director at the Carbon Management & Sequestration Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. His research focuses on soil use and management to enhance soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration for addressing the climate threat, and for increasing soil-based ecosystem services. His goal is to understand protection processes as prerequisite for SOC management. Further research interests include the importance of the subsoil SOC, and interactions of SOC with soil inorganic carbon (SIC). From 2011-14, he was Research Fellow/Chief Soil Scientist at the Global Soil Forum, IASS Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany. More here https://www.linkedin.com/in/klaus-lorenz-phd-0b121715/

Publications related to SUITMA:

Lorenz, K., Lal, R. 2017. Impacts of land take and soil sealing on soil carbon. In: Gardi, C. (Ed.) Urban Expansion, Land Cover and Soil Ecosystem Services. Taylor & Francis: Routledge (in press)

Lorenz, K., Shaw, R. K. 2017. Carbon storage in urban soils. In: Levine, M. J., Kim, K. H. J., Morel, J. L., Burghardt, W., Charzynski, P., Shaw, R. K. (Eds.) Soils within Cities. Catena-Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, pp. 203-205.

Lorenz, K. 2017. Urban Lands: Management. In: Lal, R. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Soil Science, 3rd. Ed., Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, pp. 2400-2406. DOI: 10.1081/E-ESS3-120052920

Lorenz, K. 2015. Organic urban agriculture. Soil Science 180: 146-153

Lorenz, K., Lal, R. 2015. Managing soil carbon stocks to enhance the resilience of urban ecosystems. Carbon Management 6: 35-50.

Morel, J. L., Chenu, C. Lorenz, K. 2015. Ecosystem services provided by soils of urban, industrial, traffic, mining, and military areas (SUITMAs). Journal of Soils and Sediments 15:1659-1666.

Lorenz, K., Lal, R. 2009. Biogeochemical C and N cycles in urban soils. Environment International 35: 1-8.

Lorenz, K., Preston, C. M., Kandeler, E. 2006. Soil organic matter in urban soils: estimation of elemental carbon by thermal oxidation and characterization of organic matter by solid-state 13C-NMR spectroscopy. Geoderma 130: 312-323.

Lorenz, K., Kandeler, E. 2005. Biochemical characterization of urban soil profiles from Stuttgart, Germany. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 37: 1373-1385.