Soil carbon dynamics in the humid tropical forest zone

Geoderma

Volumn 79, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 187-225

  Van Noordwijk, Meine ^a   Cerri, Carlos ^b   Woomer, Paul L ^c   Nugroho, Kusumo ^d   Bernoux, Martial ^b  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Programme TSBF   (Kenya)

^d Center for Soil and Agroclimate Research Bogor   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Erosion; Land use change; Soil organic matter; Stable isotopes; Sumatra

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON CONTENT; LAND USE CHANGE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL EROSION; SOIL NUTRIENTS; TROPICAL FOREST;

INDONESIA, SUMATRA;

EID: 0030728599     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7061(97)00042-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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