Soil carbon stocks and bulk density: Spatial or cumulative mass coordinates as a basis of expression?

Global Change Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1507-1514

  Gifford, Roger M ^a,b   Roderick, Michael L ^a,c  

^a Coop Res Ctr Greenhouse Acco ^*  (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon budget; Climate change; Equivalent soil mass; Global change; Soil organic matter

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BULK DENSITY; CARBON BUDGET; GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND USE CHANGE; SOIL CARBON;

EID: 0344494635     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.2003.00677.x     Document Type: Article

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