Dynamics of soil organic carbon stock in a typical catchment of the Loess Plateau: comparison of model simulations with measurements

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 381-397

  Wu, Xing ^a   Akujärvi, Anu ^b   Lu, Nan ^a   Liski, Jari ^b   Liu, Guohua ^a   Wang, Yafeng ^a   Holmberg, Maria ^b   Li, Fei ^c   Zeng, Yuan ^d   Fu, Bojie ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Land use change; Loess Plateau; Modeling; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925462854     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-014-0110-3     Document Type: Article

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