Enhancing the carbon sink in European agricultural soils: Including trace gas fluxes in estimates of carbon mitigation potential

Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems

Volumn 60, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 237-252

  Smith, Pete ^a   Goulding, Keith W ^a   Smith, Keith A ^b   Powlson, David S ^a   Smith, Jo U ^a   Falloon, Pete ^a   Coleman, Kevin ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Carbon mitigation; Climate change; Europe; Kyoto Protocol Article 3.4; Land management; Methane; Nitrous oxide; Soil organic carbon; Trace gas emissions

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CARBON SINK; KYOTO PROTOCOL; LAND MANAGEMENT; MITIGATION;

EUROPE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0035653019     PISSN: 13851314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012617517839     Document Type: Conference Paper

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