A plant ecology approach to digital soil mapping, improving the prediction of soil organic carbon content in alpine grasslands

Geoderma

Volumn 187-188, Issue , 2012, Pages 102-116

  Ballabio, Cristiano ^a,c   Fava, Francesco ^b   Rosenmund, Alexandra ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Correspondence analysis; Digital soil mapping; Image texture; Plant community ecology; Soil organic carbon; Variogram

Indexed keywords

CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; PLANT COMMUNITIES; SOIL MAPPING; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; VARIOGRAMS;

CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; ECOLOGY; IMAGE TEXTURE; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DIGITAL MAPPING; GEOSTATISTICS; GRASSLAND; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KRIGING; LIDAR; ORGANIC SOIL; PEDOGENESIS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PLANT COMMUNITY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL BIOTA; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL SURVEY; VARIOGRAM; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 84861336099     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.04.002     Document Type: Article

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