Mapping soil organic carbon using auxiliary environmental covariates in a typical watershed in the Loess Plateau of China: a comparative study based on three kriging methods and a soil land inference model (SoLIM)

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 239-251

  Wen, Wen ^a,b   Wang, Yafeng ^a,c   Yang, Lin ^d   Liang, Di ^e   Chen, Liding ^a   Liu, Jing ^f   Zhu, A Xing ^d,f,g  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^e MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^g NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Auxiliary environmental variables; Soil organic carbon; Spatial interpolation method; The Loess Plateau regions

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; FORECASTING; INTERPOLATION; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; ORGANIC CARBON; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; WATERSHEDS;

ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; LOESS PLATEAU; LOESS PLATEAU OF CHINAS; MEAN ABSOLUTE PERCENTAGE ERROR; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION METHOD; TOPOGRAPHIC WETNESS INDEX;

MAPPING;

EID: 84920709338     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-014-3518-9     Document Type: Article

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