Baseline map of organic carbon in Australian soil to support national carbon accounting and monitoring under climate change

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2953-2970

  Viscarra Rossel, Raphael A ^a   Webster, Richard ^b   Bui, Elisabeth N ^a   Baldock, Jeff A ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Sequestration; Soil carbon baseline; Soil carbon stock; Soil organic carbon; Spatial modelling

Indexed keywords

BASELINE CONDITIONS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOSTATISTICS; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

AUSTRALIA;

CARBON; SOIL;

AUSTRALIA; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AUSTRALIA; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL;

EID: 84905103514     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12569     Document Type: Article

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