Patterns of soil organic carbon and nitrogen in relation to soil movement under different land uses in mountain fields (South Central Pyrenees)

Catena

Volumn 94, Issue , 2012, Pages 43-52

  Navas, A ^a   Gaspar, L ^a   Quijano, L ^a   Lopez Vicente M ^b   Machin J ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

137Cs; Cultivated and abandoned fields; Nutrient sources and sinks; SOC; Soil redistribution; SON

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CARBONATE; CESIUM ISOTOPE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HILLSLOPE; LANDSCAPE; MANURE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PH; SLOPE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL EROSION; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TILLAGE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

PYRENEES;

EID: 84859160397     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2011.05.012     Document Type: Article

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