Driving forces of soil organic carbon evolution at the landscape and regional scale using data from a stratified soil monitoring

Global Change Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2981-3000

  Goidts, Esther ^a   Van Wesemael, Bas ^a   Van Oost, Kristof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Agricultural management; Baseline effect; Belgium; Long term evolution; Regional scale; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; BASELINE SURVEY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GRASSLAND; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROPERTY;

BELGIUM;

EID: 74549121935     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01940.x     Document Type: Article

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