Soil carbon stock in the tropical rangelands of Australia: Effects of soil type and grazing pressure, and determination of sampling requirement

Geoderma

Volumn 167-168, Issue , 2011, Pages 261-273

  Pringle, M J ^a   Allen, D E ^a   Dalal, R C ^a,b   Payne, J E ^a   Mayer, D G ^c   O'Reagain, P ^c   Marchant, B P ^d  

^a DERM   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION   (Australia)

^d ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon stock; Geostatistics; Rangelands; Residual maximum likelihood (REML); Sampling

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; C SEQUESTRATION; CARBON STOCKS; CATTLE GRAZING; COVARIATION; EFFICIENT MONITORING; FORAGE PRODUCTION; GEO-STATISTICS; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; GRAZING PRESSURE; LINEAR MIXED MODELS; MATERIAL COORDINATES; MIXED MODELS; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; OPTIMAL SAMPLING; PERENNIAL GRASS; PUBLIC DEBATE; RANGELANDS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; RESIDUAL MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SIMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING; SOIL CARBON STOCK; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL PROFILES; SOIL SAMPLING; SOIL TYPES; STABLE CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; STUDY SITES; TREES AND SHRUBS; UNIFORM SOIL;

BIT ERROR RATE; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; ISOTOPES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; ORGANIC CARBON; SAMPLING; SOILS; TROPICS;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CATTLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOSTATISTICS; GRAZING PRESSURE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; RANGELAND; SAMPLING; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL TYPE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

CARBON; COMPUTER PROGRAMING; FORESTRY; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPICS;

AUSTRALIA;

BOS; POACEAE;

EID: 80055036839     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2011.09.001     Document Type: Article

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