Loss-on-ignition method to assess soil organic carbon in calcareous Everglades wetlands

Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis

Volumn 39, Issue 19-20, 2008, Pages 3074-3083

  Wright, Alan L ^a   Wang, Yu ^a   Reddy, K R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Everglades; Loss on ignition; Total C; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

CALCAREOUS SOIL; CALCIUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC CARBON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; WETLAND;

EID: 56549083692     PISSN: 00103624     EISSN: 15322416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00103620802432931     Document Type: Article

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