Meeting bulk density sampling requirements efficiently to estimate soil carbon stocks

Soil Research

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 680-695

  Holmes, Karen W ^a,b   Wherrett, Andrew ^a   Keating, Adrian ^a   Murphy, Daniel V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

carbon storage in soil; Mediterranean environments; variance component estimation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AUSTRALIA; BULK DENSITY; CARBON STOCKS; COARSE FRACTIONS; COARSE-TEXTURED SOILS; DENSITY METER; FIELD CONDITIONS; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENTS; MONITORING SITES; SAMPLE COLLECTION; SAMPLE SIZES; SEMI ARID; SOIL CARBON STOCK; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; TIME-EFFICIENT METHODS; VARIANCE COMPONENT ESTIMATION; VOLUMETRIC RING;

CARBON; CLIMATOLOGY; ESTIMATION; SOILS;

ORGANIC CARBON;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; BULK DENSITY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MONITORING; SAMPLING; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL TEXTURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84855672365     PISSN: 1838675X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SR11161     Document Type: Article

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