The potential for Scottish cultivated topsoils to lose or gain soil organic carbon

Soil Use and Management

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 39-47

  Lilly, A ^a   Baggaley, N J ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Carbon storage; Mitigation; Scotland; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; BULK DENSITY; CARBON EMISSION; CULTIVATION; DATA SET; EMISSION CONTROL; FRACTIONATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MINERAL; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SATURATION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TOPSOIL;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84875053559     PISSN: 02660032     EISSN: 14752743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sum.12009     Document Type: Article

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