Soil organic carbon in the rocky desert of northern Negev (Israel)

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 811-825

  Hoffmann, Ulrike ^a   Yair, Aaron ^b   Hikel, Harald ^a   Kuhn, Nikolaus J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Drylands; Ecohydrology; Rocky deserts; SOC stock; Soil organic carbon; Topography

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; DESERT; ECOHYDROLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; LITERATURE REVIEW; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; ORGANIC CARBON; RESEARCH WORK; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DEPTH; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION COVER; WATER AVAILABILITY;

ISRAEL; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 84861228518     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-012-0499-8     Document Type: Article

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