Climate and land use changes effects on soil organic carbon stocks in a Mediterranean semi-natural area

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 579, Issue , 2017, Pages 1249-1259

  Lozano García, Beatriz ^a   Muñoz Rojas, Miriam ^b,c   Parras Alcántara, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c KINGS PARK AND BOTANIC GARDEN   (Australia)

Author keywords

CarboSOIL; Climate change scenarios; Land use change; Mediterranean evergreen oak woodland dehesa; Olive groves

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; LAND USE; ORGANIC CARBON; SOILS;

CARBOSOIL; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; LAND-USE CHANGE; MEDITERRANEAN EVERGREEN OAK WOODLAND-DEHESA; OLIVE GROVE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; EVERGREEN TREE; LAND USE CHANGE; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL CARBON; WOODLAND;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; CARBON STOCK; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; FOREST; LAND USE; OLIVE TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SPAIN; SURFACE SOIL;

SPAIN;

EID: 85007291131     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.11.111     Document Type: Article

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