Buried black soils on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro as a regional carbon storage hotspot

Catena

Volumn 112, Issue , 2014, Pages 125-130

  Zech, Michael ^a,b   Hörold, Claudia ^a   Leiber Sauheitl, Katharina ^a   Kühnel, Anna ^a   Hemp, Andreas ^a   Zech, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mt. Kilimanjaro; Paleosols; Quaternary; Soil organic carbon storage; Soil organic matter preservation

Indexed keywords

ANDOSOL; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ICE CAP; LOW TEMPERATURE; PALEOSOL; RAINFOREST; SLOPE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL TYPE; STEPPE;

GEORGIA; KILIMANJARO [KILIMANJARO (RGA)]; KILIMANJARO [TANZANIA]; SAVANNAH; TANZANIA; UNITED STATES;

LEPIDIUM APPELIANUM;

EID: 84884416671     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2013.05.015     Document Type: Article

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