Land use and climate change impacts on soil organic carbon stocks in semi-arid Spain

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 265-277

  Albaladejo, Juan ^a   Ortiz, Roque ^b   Garcia Franco, Noelia ^a   Navarro, Antonio Ruiz ^a   Almagro, Maria ^a   Pintado, Javier Garcia ^a   Martínez Mena, Maria ^a  

^a RESEARCH GROUP ON QUALITY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration potential; Control factors of soil organic carbon; Impact of global change; Vertical distribution of soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASE; LAND USE; MEDITERRANEAN SOIL; ORGANIC CARBON; SEMIARID REGION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

MURCIA [SPAIN]; SPAIN;

EID: 84872846260     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: 16147480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-012-0617-7     Document Type: Article

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