Temporal dynamics of soil organic carbon after land-use change in the temperate zone - carbon response functions as a model approach

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2415-2427

  Poeplau, Christopher ^a   Don, Axel ^a   Vesterdal, Lars ^b   Leifeld, Jens ^c   Van Wesemael, Bas ^d   Schumacher, Jens ^e   Gensior, Andreas ^a  

^a THÜNEN INSTITUTE OF CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^e FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon response functions; Land use change; Soil organic carbon; Temperate zone; Temporal dynamic

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; AFFORESTATION; CARBON SINK; DEFORESTATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; LAND USE CHANGE; LITERATURE REVIEW; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL CARBON; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SUBSOIL; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOPSOIL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79957868850     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02408.x     Document Type: Review

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