Predictive mapping of topsoil organic Carbon in an Alpine environment aided by Landsat TM

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Yang, Renmin ^a,b   Rossiter, David G ^a,c   Liu, Feng ^a   Lu, Yuanyuan ^a,b   Yang, Fan ^a,b   Yang, Fei ^a,b   Zhao, Yuguo ^a   Li, Decheng ^a   Zhang, Ganlin ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC CARBON; CARBON; SOIL;

ALPINE TUNDRA; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; GRASSLAND; GREENHOUSE GAS; PRECIPITATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL QUALITY; SURFACE SOIL; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION; CHEMISTRY; SOIL; TIBET; TUNDRA;

CARBON; SOIL; TIBET; TUNDRA;

EID: 84949463004     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139042     Document Type: Article

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