Comparing simulated and measured soil organic carbon content of clay soils for time periods up to 60 years

Environmental Management

Volumn 33, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2004, Pages

  Potter, Kenneth N ^a   Potter, Steven R ^b   Atwood, Jay D ^c   Williams, Jimmy R ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b Texas Ag Experiment Station   (United States)

^c USDA NRCS   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; EPIC; Simulation modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARBON; CHELATION; CLAY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURVE FITTING; EROSION; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

CARBON SEQUESTERATION; EPIC; EROSION PRODUCTIVITY IMPACT CALCULATOR MODEL (EPIC); SOIL ORGANIC CARBON (SOC);

SOILS;

ORGANIC CARBON;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLAY SOIL; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLAY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; GRASSLAND; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SIMULATION; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL EROSION; TILLAGE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WEATHER;

ALGORITHMS; CARBON; CHELATION; CLAY; CURVES; EROSION; SIMULATION; SOIL;

EID: 27544466382     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-003-9153-y     Document Type: Article

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