Carbon and nitrogen isotopic measurements from southern appalachian soils: Assessing soil carbon sequestration under climate and land-use variation

Journal of Environmental Engineering

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 439-448

  Campbell, J Elliott ^a   Fox, James F ^b   Davis, Charles M ^b   Rowe, Harold D ^c   Thompson, Nathan ^b  

^a Merced   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon; Carbon dioxide; Isotopes; Nitrogen; Organic matter; Soil analysis; Soil chemistry; Soil dynamics; Soil sampling

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL DYNAMICS; SOIL SAMPLING;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; LAND USE; MINING; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; SEDIMENTS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; SOILS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMISTRY; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; LAND USE; METEOROLOGY; MINING; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; SAMPLING; SEDIMENTS; SOIL;

APPALACHIANS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 69149108731     PISSN: 07339372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0000008     Document Type: Article

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