Continental-scale measurement of the soil organic carbon pool with climatic, edaphic, and biotic controls

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Wynn, Jonathan G ^a,b   Bird, Michael I ^a,b,c   Vellen, Lins ^a   Grand Clement, Emilie ^a,d   Carter, John ^e   Berry, Sandra L ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^e NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SOILS; VEGETATION; WATER;

SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; WATER AVAILABILITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33646555819     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GB002576     Document Type: Article

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