Effects of climate change and land management on soil organic carbon dynamics and carbon leaching in northwestern Europe

Biogeosciences

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1519-1536

  Stergiadi, Maria ^a   Van Der Perk, Marcel ^a   De Nijs, Ton C M ^b   Bierkens, Marc F P ^a,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ARABLE LAND; BIOFERTILIZER; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FARMING SYSTEM; FOREST COVER; GRASSLAND; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; LEACHING; LOAMY SAND; SANDY SOIL; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EUROPE;

EID: 84960970273     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-13-1519-2016     Document Type: Article

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