Carbon burial in soil sediments from Holocene agricultural erosion, Central Europe

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 828-835

  Hoffmann, Thomas ^a   Schlummer, Manuela ^a   Notebaert, Bastiaan ^b,c   Verstraeten, Gert ^b   Korup, Oliver ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

deposition; floodplain; hillslope; human impact; soil erosion; soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); BUDGET CONTROL; CARBON; CATCHMENTS; DEPOSITION; EROSION; LAKES; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; WATERSHEDS;

FLOOD PLAINS; HILLSLOPES; HUMAN IMPACT; SOIL EROSION; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON;

FLOODS;

EID: 84883164723     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gbc.20071     Document Type: Article

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