Assessing soil carbon storage rates under no-tillage: Comparing the synchronic and diachronic approaches

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 134, Issue , 2013, Pages 207-212

  Costa Junior, C ^a   Corbeels, M ^b,c   Bernoux, M ^d   Piccolo M C ^a   Siqueira Neto, M ^a   Feigl, B J ^a   Cerri, C E P ^a   Cerri, C C ^a   Scopel, E ^b   Lal, R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b CIRAD   (France)

^c EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerrado; No tillage; Soil C accumulation; Soil organic matter; Soil sampling

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATES; CERRADO; NO TILLAGE; NO-TILLAGE SYSTEMS; PROCESS-ORIENTED MODEL; SOIL CARBON STORAGE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; SOIL SAMPLING;

AGRICULTURAL WASTES; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); LAND USE;

SOILS;

BIOACCUMULATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHRONOSEQUENCE; LAND USE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SAMPLING; SOIL CARBON; ZERO TILLAGE;

ARIZONA; BRAZIL; UNITED STATES; VERDE RIVER;

EID: 84884385861     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2013.08.010     Document Type: Article

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