Soil carbon lost from Mollisols of the North Central U.S.A. with 20 years of agricultural best management practices

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 162, Issue , 2012, Pages 68-76

  Sanford, Gregg R ^a   Posner, Joshua L ^a   Jackson, Randall D ^a   Kucharik, Christopher J ^a   Hedtcke, Janet L ^a   Lin, Ting Li ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Frontier Science and Technology Research Foundation Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bulk density; Carbon sequestration; Ecosystem services

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; BULK DENSITY; CROPPING PRACTICE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MOLLISOL; OXIDATION; PERENNIAL PLANT; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROFILE;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84866510514     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2012.08.011     Document Type: Article

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