Soil salinity decreases global soil organic carbon stocks

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 465, Issue , 2013, Pages 267-272

  Setia, Raj ^a   Gottschalk, Pia ^b   Smith, Pete ^c   Marschner, Petra ^a   Baldock, Jeff ^a,d   Setia, Deepika ^a   Smith, Jo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decomposition rate modifier; Global; Past; Present; RothC; Salinity

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION RATE; GLOBAL; PAST; PRESENT; ROTHC; SALINITY;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE;

SOILS;

ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; DECOMPOSITION; LEACHING; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ORGANIC CARBON; SALINITY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CARBON STORAGE; DECOMPOSITION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SOIL;

EID: 84884534218     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.08.028     Document Type: Article

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