Soil-Specific inventories of landscape carbon and nitrogen stocks under no-till and native vegetation to estimate carbon offset in a subtropical ecosystem

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2094-2110

  De Moraes Sá, João Carlos ^a   Dos Santos, Josiane Bürkner ^b   Lal, Rattan ^c   De Moraes, Anibal ^d   Tivet, Florent ^e   Machado Sá, Marcia Freire ^a   Briedis, Clever ^a   De Oliveira Ferreira, Ademir ^f   Eurich, Guilherme ^a   Farias, Anderson ^a   Friedrich, Theodor ^g  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF PONTA GROSSA   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO AGRONÔMICO DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^e CIRAD   (France)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

^g FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL EMISSIONS; ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; CARBON AND NITROGEN; CONVENTIONAL TILLAGE; LAND-USE SYSTEMS; LANDSCAPE SCALE; LANDSCAPE SOILS; SOUTHERN BRAZIL;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; LAND USE; TEXTURES;

SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL EMISSION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARABLE LAND; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON FOOTPRINT; EMISSION INVENTORY; LAND USE CHANGE; NATIVE SPECIES; SOIL TEXTURE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; ZERO TILLAGE;

BRAZIL;

EID: 84891934253     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: 14350661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2013.01.0007     Document Type: Article

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