Estimating the soil organic carbon content for European NUTS2 regions based on LUCAS data collection

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 442, Issue , 2013, Pages 235-246

  Panagos, Panos ^a   Ballabio, Cristiano ^a   Yigini, Yusuf ^a   Dunbar, Martha B ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data collection; Europe; LUCAS; NUTS2; Organic carbon; Soil

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; DATA COLLECTION; DATA SETS; ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY; EU COUNTRIES; EUROPE; EUROPEAN COMMISSION; EUROPEAN UNION; GOOD CORRELATIONS; IRELAND; LUCAS; NUTS2; ORGANIC CARBON CONTENTS; REGIONAL LEVELS; RESEARCH CENTRES; SLOVENIA; SOIL CONDITIONS; SOIL DATA; SOIL DATABASE; SOIL LOSS; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON CONTENT; SOIL PROTECTION; SOIL THREATS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM;

DATA ACQUISITION; ESTIMATION; INTERNATIONAL LAW; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL SURVEYS;

SOILS;

ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EROSION CONTROL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL EROSION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL SURVEY; CORRELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EUROPEAN UNION;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EUROPEAN UNION; FRANCE; IRELAND; ITALY; LAND USE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOVENIA; SOIL PROPERTY; SURFACE SOIL; UNITED KINGDOM; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LUCAS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL TEXTURE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUROPE; GOVERNMENT; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; METHODOLOGY; SOIL; STANDARD; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EUROPE; FRANCE; IRELAND; ITALY; SLOVENIA; UNITED KINGDOM;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOIL;

EID: 84869869311     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.10.017     Document Type: Article

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