Toward landscape-scale modeling of soil organic matter dynamics in agroecosystems

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1847-1860

  Viaud, Valérie ^a   Angers, Denis A ^b   Walter, Christian ^c  

^a UMR SAS   (France)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; AGRO-ECOSYSTEMS; ANTHROPOGENIC PROCESS; C SEQUESTRATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; FULLY INTEGRATED; FUNCTIONAL INTERACTION; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT; INTEGRATED MODELING; LAND AREAS; LANDSCAPE LEVEL; LANDSCAPE SCALE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MODEL REQUIREMENTS; MODELING FRAMEWORKS; ORGANIC MATTER; PREDICTIVE MODELS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SCALE MODELING; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER DYNAMICS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; SOIL PROFILES; SPATIAL DATABASE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL EXTENT; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; TRANSFORMATION PROCESS; WATERSHED LEVELS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DYNAMICS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOILS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

EID: 78249257317     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2009.0412     Document Type: Review

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