Scaling impacts on environmental controls and spatial heterogeneity of soil organic carbon stocks

Biogeosciences

Volumn 12, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 3993-4004

  Mishra, U ^a   Riley, W J ^b  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HETEROGENEITY; LAND COVER; SCALE EFFECT; SCRUB; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCK ASSESSMENT; BENCHMARKING; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LAND SURFACE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SOIL PROFILE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84936952353     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-12-3993-2015     Document Type: Article

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