Soil processes and functions across an international network of Critical Zone Observatories: Introduction to experimental methods and initial results

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 344, Issue 11-12, 2012, Pages 758-772

  Banwart, Steven ^a   Menon, Manoj ^a   Bernasconi, Stefano M ^b   Bloem, Jaap ^c   Blum, Winfried E H ^d   Souza, Danielle Maia de ^e   Davidsdotir, Brynhildur ^f   Duffy, Christopher ^g   Lair, Georg J ^d   Kram, Pavel ^h   Lamacova, Anna ^h   Lundin, Lars ⁱ   Nikolaidis, Nikolaos P ^j   Novak, Martin ^h   Panagos, Panos ^e   Ragnarsdottir, Kristin Vala ^f   Reynolds, Brian ^k   Robinson, David ^k   Rousseva, Svetla ^l   de Ruiter, Peter ^c   van Gaans, Pauline ^m   Weng, Liping ^c   White, Tim ⁿ   Zhang, Bin ^o   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^e JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^g The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

^h CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

ⁱ SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^j TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^k CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^l INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE   (Bulgaria)

^m DELTARES   (Netherlands)

ⁿ PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

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Author keywords

Critical zone; Mathematical modeling; Observatory; Soil management; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL STRUCTURE; SUSTAINABILITY;

EUROPE;

EID: 84870745454     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2012.10.007     Document Type: Article

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