Spatial distribution of the soil organic carbon pool in a Holm oak dehesa in Spain

Plant and Soil

Volumn 366, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 537-549

  Simón, Nuria ^a   Montes, Fernando ^a,b   Díaz Pinés, Eugenio ^a,c   Benavides, Raquel ^d   Roig, Sonia ^a   Rubio, Agustín ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria   (Spain)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agroforestry systems; Soil C; Spatial variance partition; Tree effect; Universal Kriging

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; AUTOCORRELATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; EVERGREEN TREE; FALLOW; GRAZING; KRIGING; ORGANIC CARBON; PASTURE; SOIL CARBON; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

SPAIN;

EID: 84876442796     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-012-1443-9     Document Type: Article

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