Methods of evaluating soil bulk density: Impact on estimating large scale soil organic carbon storage

Catena

Volumn 144, Issue , 2016, Pages 94-101

  Xu, Li ^a,b   He, Nianpeng ^a   Yu, Guirui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Bulk density; Mean; Median; Pedo transfer functions; Soil organic carbon; Soil type

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BULK DENSITY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ORGANIC CARBON; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL TYPE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALUATION;

EID: 84968877265     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2016.05.001     Document Type: Article

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