Estimation of soil organic carbon stock and its spatial distribution in the Republic of Ireland

Soil Use and Management

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 156-162

  Xu, X ^a   Liu, W ^a   Zhang, C ^b   Kiely, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

National scale; National soil database; Regression models; SoilC database

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COASTAL ZONE; DATABASE; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL CARBON; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

IRELAND;

EID: 79956270527     PISSN: 02660032     EISSN: 14752743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-2743.2011.00342.x     Document Type: Article

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