Environmental Factors Controlling Soil Organic Carbon Stocks in Two Contrasting Mediterranean Climatic Areas of Southern Spain

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 603-611

  Willaarts, Bárbara A ^a   Oyonarte, Cecilio ^b   Muñoz Rojas, Miriam ^c,d,e   Ibáñez, Juan José ^f   Aguilera, Pedro A ^b  

^a University Politécnica of Madrid   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d KINGS PARK AND BOTANIC GARDEN   (Australia)

^e CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f CDIS UV Generalitat Valenciana)   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Land use changes; Soil carbon sinks; Soil geodatabase; Soil management

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; FORESTRY; LAND USE; ORGANIC CARBON;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GEODATABASE; LAND-USE CHANGE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MANAGEMENT;

SOILS;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST SOIL; GRASSLAND SOIL; LAND USE CHANGE; ORGANIC CARBON; SHRUB; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MANAGEMENT;

SPAIN;

EID: 84941909997     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2417     Document Type: Article

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