Potential soil carbon sequestration in a semiarid Mediterranean agroecosystem under climate change: Quantifying management and climate effects

Plant and Soil

Volumn 338, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 261-272

  Álvaro Fuentes, Jorge ^a   Paustian, Keith ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Mediterranean systems; Modeling; Soil organic carbon; Tillage

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP ROTATION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TILLAGE;

EID: 78650310876     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-010-0304-7     Document Type: Article

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