Variation in soil organic carbon and nitrogen stocks along a toposequence in a traditional mediterranean olive grove

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 297-304

  Lozano García, Beatriz ^a   Parras Alcántara, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Hillslope; Organic matter; Stratification ratio; Toposequence

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; EROSION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ALTERNATIVE MANAGEMENT; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; EROSION PROCESS; HILLSLOPES; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON AND NITROGEN; STRATIFICATION RATIOS; TOPOSEQUENCE;

SOILS;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; HILLSLOPE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL CARBON; SOIL EROSION; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TILLAGE; TOPOGRAPHY; TOPOSEQUENCE;

EID: 84902075477     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2284     Document Type: Article

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