Capacity for increasing soil organic carbon stocks in dryland agricultural systems

Soil Research

Volumn 51, Issue 7-8, 2013, Pages 657-667

  Hoyle, F C ^a,b   D'Antuono, M ^a   Overheu, T ^a   Murphy, D V ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon farming; Carbon modelling; Carbon sequestration; Climate variability; Farming systems; Roth C

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; FARMING SYSTEM; ROTH-C; SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON STOCKS; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON STORAGES;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; LAND USE; RAIN;

SOILS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRYLAND FARMING; FARMING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL TYPE; SUBSOIL;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84890894925     PISSN: 1838675X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SR12373     Document Type: Article

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