Erosion, deposition and soil carbon: A review of process-level controls, experimental tools and models to address C cycling in dynamic landscapes

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 154, Issue , 2016, Pages 102-122

  Doetterl, Sebastian ^a,e   Berhe, Asmeret Asefaw ^b   Nadeu, Elisabet ^c   Wang, Zhengang ^c   Sommer, Michael ^d,f   Fiener, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon redistribution; Soil deposition; Soil erosion; Terrestrial C sink

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON FLUX; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; DEPOSITION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL EROSION;

EID: 84952653164     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.12.005     Document Type: Review

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