Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Associated with Soil Aggregates and Particle Sizes Under Different Land Uses in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 690-700

  Gelaw, Aweke M ^a   Singh, B R ^a   Lal, R ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; C sequestration; C fractionation; C sink capacity; Ethiopia; Land use

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; AGGREGATES; FORESTRY; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; SOILS;

C SEQUESTRATION; CARBON AND NITROGEN; ETHIOPIA; SINK CAPACITY; SOC CONCENTRATIONS; SOIL AGGREGATION; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

LAND USE;

EID: 84924278811     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2261     Document Type: Article

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