Soil organic carbon and total nitrogen stocks as affected by topographic aspect and vegetation in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia

Geoderma

Volumn 135, Issue , 2006, Pages 335-344

  Yimer, Fantaw ^a,b   Ledin, Stig ^b   Abdelkadir, Abdu ^a  

^a Wondo Genet College of Forestry   (Ethiopia)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Forest soils; Organic matter; Slope aspect; Vegetation zonation

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FOREST SOILS; SLOPE ASPECTS; VEGETATION ZONATION;

CULTIVATION; FORESTRY; VEGETATION;

SOIL SURVEYS;

NITROGEN CYCLE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CULTIVATION; FORESTRY; PLANTS; SOIL; SURVEYS;

AFRICA; BALE MOUNTAINS; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ERICA; ERICA ARBOREA; HAGENIA; HYPERICUM; SCHEFFLERA;

EID: 33749678614     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2006.01.005     Document Type: Article

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