Modelling soil organic carbon turnover in improved fallows in eastern Zambia using the RothC-26.3 model

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 256, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1160-1166

  Kaonga, M L ^a   Coleman, K ^b  

^a IACR Rothamsted ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Annual carbon input; Coppicing fallows; Nitrogen fixing trees; Non coppicing fallows; Soil organic carbon; Tree rotation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERICS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; CHELATION; ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; HARVESTING; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONMETALS; ORGANIC CARBON; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; SOILS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

AGRO-FORESTRY; ANNUAL CARBON INPUT; COPPICING FALLOWS; EMPIRICAL DATA; LONG-TERM EXPERIMENTS; NITROGEN FIXING TREES; NITROGEN-FIXING TREE; NON-COPPICING FALLOWS; SOIL C SEQUESTRATION; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL SAMPLES; SURFACE LITTER; TREE ROTATION;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

AGROFORESTRY; COPPICE; CROP ROTATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FALLOW; MODEL TEST; MODELING; NITROGEN FIXATION; ORGANIC CARBON; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; ZAMBIA;

CAJANUS; CAJANUS CAJAN; GLIRICIDIA; LEUCAENA; SENNA; SESBANIA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 48849105333     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.06.017     Document Type: Article

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