Assessment of the soil organic carbon sink in a project for the conversion of farmland to forestland: A case study in Zichang County, Shaanxi, China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Mu, Lan ^a,b   Liang, Yinli ^a,b   Han, Ruilian ^a,b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC CARBON; CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SOIL;

AFFORESTATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALFALFA; ARTICLE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC MATTER PRODUCTION; ROBINIA PSEUDOACACIA; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE; AGRICULTURE; CHEMISTRY; FOREST; FORESTRY; SOIL; TIME;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHINA; FORESTRY; FORESTS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SOIL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84899730492     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094770     Document Type: Article

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