Climate and land use controls on soil organic carbon in the Loess Plateau region of China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Dang, Yaai ^a,b   Ren, Wei ^b   Tao, Bo ^b   Chen, Guangsheng ^b   Lu, Chaoqun ^b   Yang, Jia ^b   Pan, Shufen ^b   Wang, Guodong ^a   Li, Shiqing ^a   Tian, Hanqin ^b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC CARBON; RAIN; CARBON; SOIL;

ARTICLE; CARBON CYCLING; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROPLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; GRASSLAND; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LAND CONVERSION; LAND USE; LOESS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL EROSION; AGRICULTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; SOIL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; CHINA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RAIN; SOIL; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84900433900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095548     Document Type: Article

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