Drivers of soil organic carbon storage and vertical distribution in Eastern Australia

Plant and Soil

Volumn 390, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 111-127

  Hobley, Eleanor ^a   Wilson, Brian ^a,b   Wilkie, Arjan ^a   Gray, Jonathan ^b   Koen, Terry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate; Geology; Land use; Machine learning; Vertical distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939969225     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: 15735036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-015-2380-1     Document Type: Article

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