Soil organic carbon storage changes with climate change, landform and land use conditions in Garhwal hills of the Indian Himalayan mountains

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 138, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 64-73

  Martin, D ^a   Lal, Tarsem ^a   Sachdev, C B ^a   Sharma, J P ^a  

^a INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Climate change; Geographical Information system; Himalayan mountains; Land use; Landform; Physiograpy; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DIURNAL VARIATION; FOREST COVER; GIS; LAND USE; LANDFORM; MINERALIZATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; SLOPE; SNOW COVER; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROFILE; VEGETATION TYPE;

GARHWAL HIMALAYAS; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; UTTARAKHAND;

QUERCUS; RHODODENDRON;

EID: 77954864998     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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