Number of soil profiles needed to give a reliable overall estimate of soil organic carbon storage using profile carbon density data

Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 819-825

  Yan, Xiaoyuan ^a   Cai, Zucong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Central limit theorem; Minimum detectable change; Sample size; Soil organic carbon; Variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249146031     PISSN: 00380768     EISSN: 17470765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0765.2008.00305.x     Document Type: Article

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