Agricultural soil erosion and global carbon cycle: Controversy over?

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1033-1038

  Kuhn, Nikolaus J ^a   Hoffmann, Thomas ^b   Schwanghart, Wolfgang ^a   Dotterweich, Markus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agricultural land; Eco geomorphology; Global carbon cycle; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; AGRICULTURAL SOILS; ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE; ATMOSPHERIC CO; DEEP BURIALS; ECO-GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE; GLOBAL COVERAGE; HOLOCENES; INTERRILL; RILL EROSION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; STATIONARITY;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CARBON DIOXIDE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOILS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

EROSION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CARBON CYCLE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HOLOCENE; MINERALIZATION; RILL; SOIL EROSION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

EID: 69249213588     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1796     Document Type: Article

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