The fate of soil organic carbon upon erosion, transport and deposition in agricultural landscapes - A review of different concepts

Geomorphology

Volumn 226, Issue , 2014, Pages 94-105

  Kirkels, F M S A ^a   Cammeraat, L H ^a   Kuhn, N J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Carbon sink source; Controversy; Scale; Soil carbon dynamics; Soil redistribution processes

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; DEPOSITION; EROSION RATE; MINERALIZATION; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL CARBON; SOIL EROSION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT PROCESS; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CARBON BUDGET; EROSION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

EID: 84906513888     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.07.023     Document Type: Review

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