Soil processes and func tions in critical zone observatories: Hypotheses and experimental design

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 974-987

  Banwart, Steven ^a   Bernasconi, Stefano M ^b   Bloem, Jaap ^c   Blum, Winfried ^d   Brandao, Miguel ^e   Brantley, Susan ^f   Chabaux, Francois ^g   Duffy, Christopher ^f   Kram, Pavel ⁱ   Lair, Georg ^d   Lundin, Lars ^h   Nikolaidis, Nikolaos ^j   Novak, Martin ⁱ   Panagos, Panos ^e   Ragnarsdottir, Kristin Vala ^k   Reynolds, Brian ^l   Rousseva, Svetla ^m   de Ruiter, Peter ^c   van Gaans, Pauline ⁿ   van Riemsdijk, Willem ^c   White, Tim ^f   Zhang, Bin ^o   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^e JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^h SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

ⁱ CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

^j TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^l CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^m INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE   (Bulgaria)

ⁿ DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^o INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE FORMATION; CRITICAL MASS; DATA SETS; DEGRADED SOILS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EUROPEAN UNION POLICY; FOOD-WEB DYNAMICS; GAIN INSIGHT; GLOBAL SCALE; INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS; KEY PROCESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MONETARY VALUATIONS; PARENT MATERIALS; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; RESEARCH METHODS; SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL ENVIRONMENT; SOIL FORMATIONS; SOIL PROCESS; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL PROTECTION; SOIL STRUCTURE; SOIL THREATS;

BUILDINGS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESIGN; EARTH (PLANET); ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LAND USE; LIFE CYCLE; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OBSERVATORIES; RESEARCH; SOILS; STATISTICS; USER INTERFACES;

SOIL TESTING;

AGGREGATE SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EUROPEAN UNION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND USE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATORY; PARENT MATERIAL; PEDOGENESIS; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL STRUCTURE;

EID: 84860393597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2010.0136     Document Type: Article

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