Soil aggregation and organic carbon as affected by topography and land use change in western Iran

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 121, Issue , 2012, Pages 18-26

  Ayoubi, Shamsollah ^a   Mokhtari Karchegani, Parisa ^b   Mosaddeghi, Mohammad Reza ^a   Honarjoo, Naser ^b  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Aggregate stability; Micromorphology; Physical fractionation; Slope gradient; Soil organic carbon; Total nitrogen

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE STABILITY; MICROMORPHOLOGIES; PHYSICAL FRACTIONATION; SLOPE GRADIENTS; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; TOTAL NITROGEN;

FORESTRY; LAKES; LAND USE; SLOPE STABILITY; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; SOILS;

AGGREGATES;

AGGREGATE SIZE; ARABLE LAND; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FOREST SOIL; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; MACROAGGREGATE; MICROAGGREGATE; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC SOIL; SLOPE ANGLE; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL EROSION; SOIL STABILIZATION; SOIL STRUCTURE; TILLAGE; TOPOGRAPHY; TOPSOIL;

AGGLOMERATION; CARBON; EROSION; FORESTRY; IRAN; LAND USE; MICROSTRUCTURE; NITROGEN; SOIL;

IRAN;

EID: 84857209634     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2012.01.011     Document Type: Article

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