The dynamic soil organic carbon mitigation potential of European cropland

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 35, Issue , 2015, Pages 269-278

  Frank, Stefan ^a   Schmid, Erwin ^b   Havlík, Petr ^a   Schneider, Uwe A ^c   Böttcher, Hannes ^d   Balkovič, Juraj ^a,e   Obersteiner, Michael ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d Division Environmental Law and Governance Öko Institut   (Germany)

^e Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Conservation tillage; Dynamics; GHG emissions; Land use modeling; Partial equilibrium; Soil carbon

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; LAND USE CHANGE; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DYNAMICS; SOIL EMISSION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84942567012     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.08.004     Document Type: Article

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