The impact of grassland management practices on soil organic carbon: An analysis with three objective weighting methods

Chinese Journal of Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 987-993

  Rong, Yu ping ^a   Zhao, Min ^a   Zhu, Ling ling ^a   Bai, Ke yu ^b  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

CRITIC; Entropy weighting method; Multi indicator evaluation; Soil organic carbon; Standard deviation method

Indexed keywords

CARBON SINK; ENTROPY; GRASSLAND; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL CARBON; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

EID: 84863558216     PISSN: 10004890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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