Improved sampling methods document decline in soil organic carbon stocks and concentrations of permanganate oxidizable carbon after transition from swidden to oil palm cultivation

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 178, Issue , 2013, Pages 127-134

  Bruun, Thilde Bech ^a   Egay, Kelvin ^b   Mertz, Ole ^c   Magid, Jakob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

^c Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Early indicator; Equivalent soil mass approach; Land use changes; Permanganate oxidizable carbon; Sarawak; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CULTIVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; LAND USE CHANGE; MONOCOTYLEDON; ORGANIC SOIL; PLANTATION; SAMPLING; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL QUALITY; ULTISOL;

EAST MALAYSIA; MALAYSIA; SARAWAK;

EID: 84881282118     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2013.06.018     Document Type: Article

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