Measuring and monitoring soil organic carbon stocks in agricultural lands for climate mitigation

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 169-173

  Conant, Richard T ^a   Ogle, Stephen M ^a   Paul, Eldor A ^a   Paustian, Keith ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EROSION CONTROL; GREENHOUSE GAS; POLICY ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SOIL CARBON; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL REMEDIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 79955426473     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/090153     Document Type: Review

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