Comparisons of Three Methods for Organic and Inorganic Carbon in Calcareous Soils of Northwestern China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Xiujun ^a,b   Wang, Jiaping ^a,c   Zhang, Juan ^a,c  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INORGANIC CARBON; INORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANIC CARBON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYZER; ARTICLE; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHINA; COMBUSTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOSS ON IGNITION PROCEDURE; MODIFIED PRESSURE CALCIMETER METHOD; SOIL ANALYSIS; WALKLEY BLACK METHOD;

CARBON; CARBONATES; CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, ANALYTICAL; CHINA; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GEOGRAPHY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LINEAR MODELS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SOIL;

EID: 84865642144     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044334     Document Type: Article

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