Quantifying soil organic carbon in complex landscapes: An example of grassland undergoing encroachment of woody plants

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1119-1129

  Liu, Feng ^a   Wu, X Ben ^a   Bai, E ^a   Boutton, Thomas W ^a   Archer, Steven R ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Prosopis glandulosa; Sampling design; Sequential indicator simulation (SIS); Spatial heterogeneity; Spatial uncertainty; Variogram; Woody plant invasion

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GRASSLAND; HETEROGENEITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; LANDSCAPE; ORGANIC CARBON; SAMPLING; SHRUB; SOIL CARBON; SPATIAL VARIATION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VARIOGRAM; WOODY PLANT;

GREAT PLAINS; UNITED STATES;

PROSOPIS; PROSOPIS GLANDULOSA;

EID: 78650772680     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02251.x     Document Type: Article

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