Verification of soil carbon sequestration: Sample requirements

Environmental Management

Volumn 33, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2004, Pages

  Poussart, Jean Nicolas ^a   Ardö, Jonas ^a   Olsson, Lennart ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Composite sample; Minimum detectable difference, Nonparametric; Sampling; Sequestration; Soil organic carbon; Sudan

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; CHELATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ECOSYSTEMS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY;

BOOTSTRAPPING; CARBON SEQUESTERATION; COMPOSITE SAMPLE; MINIMUM DETECTABLE DIFFERENCE, NONPARAMETRIC; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON;

SOILS;

ORGANIC CARBON;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; SAMPLING; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

AGROECOSYSTEM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SOIL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUDAN;

CHELATION; ECOSYSTEMS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PARAMETERS; PROBABILITY; SOIL;

EID: 27544456893     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-003-9149-7     Document Type: Article

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