The global significance of omitting soil erosion from soil organic carbon cycling schemes

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 187-191

  Chappell, Adrian ^a   Baldock, Jeffrey ^a   Sanderman, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CATCHMENT; EMISSION INVENTORY; GREENHOUSE GAS; LAND SURFACE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL EROSION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL RESPIRATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84955600173     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2829     Document Type: Article

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