Grass ley set-aside and soil organic matter dynamics on sandy soils in Shropshire, UK

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 570-578

  Fullen, Michael A ^a   Booth, Colin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Grassland; Hilton Experimental Site; Rainfall simulator; Runoff plots; Soil conservation; Soil erosion; Soil texture

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EROSION; RUNOFF; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; TEXTURES;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GRASSLAND; HILTON EXPERIMENTAL SITE; RAINFALL SIMULATOR; SOIL TEXTURE;

SOIL MECHANICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EROSION; RUNOFF; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; TEXTURES;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; EROSION RATE; GRASSLAND; ORGANIC MATTER; RUNOFF; SANDY SOIL; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL DYNAMICS; SOIL EROSION; SOIL STABILIZATION; SOIL TEXTURE;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; SHROPSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33646389512     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1348     Document Type: Article

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