Equilibration of the terrestrial water, nitrogen, and carbon cycles: Advocating a health threshold for carbon storage

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue , 2013, Pages 366-374

  Gao, Yang ^a   Yu, Guirui ^a   He, Nianpeng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon health; Carbon sequestration; Coupling; N input; Terrestrial ecosystem; Threshold; Water erosion

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COUPLING RELATIONSHIPS; ECOLOGICAL DEGRADATIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; THRESHOLD; WATER EROSION;

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; COUPLINGS; EROSION; FORESTRY; HEALTH; NITROGEN;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; NUMERICAL MODEL; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; THRESHOLD; WATER EROSION;

EID: 84878861172     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.04.011     Document Type: Article

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