Digital soil mapping of soil organic carbon stocks under different land use and land cover types in montane ecosystems, Eastern Himalayas

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 318, Issue , 2014, Pages 91-102

  Dorji, Tshering ^a   Odeh, Inakwu O A ^a   Field, Damien J ^a   Baillie, Ian C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital soil mapping; Himalayas; Land use; Regression kriging; SOC stocks; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; INTERPOLATION; LAND USE; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL SURVEYS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

DIGITAL SOIL MAPPINGS; HIMALAYAS; LAND USE AND LAND COVER; LATIN HYPERCUBE SAMPLING; MIXED-CONIFER FORESTS; REGRESSION-KRIGING; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON STOCKS;

SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIGITAL MAPPING; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST SOIL; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; KRIGING; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; ORCHARD; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROFILE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; FORESTRY; LAND USE; SOIL;

BHUTAN; HIMALAYAS;

EID: 84893596447     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.01.003     Document Type: Article

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