Estimating change in soil organic carbon using legacy data as the baseline: Issues, approaches and lessons to learn

Soil Research

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 349-365

  Karunaratne, S B ^a   Bishop, T F A ^a   Odeh, I O A ^a   Baldock, J A ^b   Marchant, B P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design based; Model based; Monitoring; Sampling; Soil carbon; Space time

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DESIGN; DROPS; ESTIMATION; MONITORING; RUNOFF; SAMPLING; SURVEYS;

DESIGN-BASED; MODEL BASED APPROACH; MODEL-BASED; SAMPLING DESIGN; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SPACE-TIME; STATISTICAL APPROACH;

SOILS;

EID: 84899838381     PISSN: 1838675X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SR13081     Document Type: Article

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