Estimating a region's soil organic carbon baseline: The undervalued role of land-management

Geoderma

Volumn 152, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 74-84

  Bell, M J ^a   Worrall, F ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Land management; Land use; Soil organic carbon; Soil organic carbon stock estimates; Soil series

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CARBON; DATA SETS; ENGLAND; EXPLANATORY POWER; LAND COVER; LAND-MANAGEMENT; LOCAL DATA; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MEAN VALUES; POINT LOCATION; REGIONAL SCALE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL GROUPS; SOIL ORDERS; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON STOCK ESTIMATES; SOIL PH; SOIL PROFILES; SOIL SAMPLING; SOIL TEXTURES;

GLOBAL WARMING; LAND USE; ORGANIC CARBON; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS;

SOILS;

BASELINE CONDITIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; LAND COVER; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE; ORGANIC CARBON; RESEARCH WORK; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL TEXTURE; STRATIFICATION;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHUMBERLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67650561525     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2009.05.020     Document Type: Article

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