Contemporary land use/land cover types determine soil organic carbon stocks in south-west Rwanda

Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 19-33

  Wasige, John Ejiet ^a,b,c   Groen, Thomas A ^a   Rwamukwaya, Bana Mediatrice ^a   Tumwesigye, Wycliffe ^a   Smaling, Eric Marc Alexander ^a   Jetten, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^c National Agricultural Research Laboratories (NARL) Kawanda   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Global climate change; Land degradation; Land use change; Soil C sequestration; Soil fertility; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CROP; FOREST; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAND COVER; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND USE CHANGE; PLANTATION; SOIL FERTILITY;

AFRICA; RWANDA;

EID: 84906794856     PISSN: 13851314     EISSN: 15730867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10705-014-9623-z     Document Type: Article

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