Soil carbon sequestration under different exotic tree species in the southwestern highlands of Ethiopia

Geoderma

Volumn 136, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 886-898

  Lemma, Bekele ^a,b   Kleja, Dan Berggren ^b   Nilsson, Ingvar ^b   Olsson, Mats ^b  

^a Wondo Genet College of Forestry   (Ethiopia)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Land use changes; Natural 13C abundance; Soil organic carbon accretion

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FORESTRY; LAND USE;

ABANDONED FARMLAND; LAND ABANDONMENT; PRE-PLANTATION PERIOD;

SOILS;

AFFORESTATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; LAND USE CHANGE; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

CARBON; LAND USE; SOIL; TREES;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

CUPRESSUS; CUPRESSUS LUSITANICA; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS GRANDIS; PINUS PATULA; POACEAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33751217404     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2006.06.008     Document Type: Article

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