Scale effect of climate on soil organic carbon in the Uplands of Northeast China

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1007-1017

  Wang, Dan Dan ^a,c,d   Shi, Xue Zheng ^a,d   Wang, Hong Jie ^a   Weindorf, David C ^b   Yu, Dong Sheng ^a   Sun, Wei Xia ^a   Ren, Hong Yan ^a   Zhao, Yong Cun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Climate; Main factor; Scale effect; Soil organic carbon (SOC) content

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CORRELATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ORGANIC CARBON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCALE EFFECT; SEASONALITY; SOIL CARBON; UPLAND REGION;

CHINA; MONGOLIA; SPAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955852850     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-009-0129-2     Document Type: Article

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