Soil carbon sequestration due to post-Soviet cropland abandonment: estimates from a large-scale soil organic carbon field inventory

Global Change Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 3729-3741

  Wertebach, Tim Martin ^a   Hölzel, Norbert ^a   Kämpf, Immo ^a,b   Yurtaev, Andrey ^c   Tupitsin, Sergey ^c   Kiehl, Kathrin ^b   Kamp, Johannes ^a   Kleinebecker, Till ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c TYUMEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

carbon sequestration; climate change mitigation; land use change; self restoration; soil organic carbon; Western Siberia

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; INVENTORY; LAND USE CHANGE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TOPSOIL;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA; TYUMEN;

CARBON; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; CROP; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHINA; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; RUSSIA; SIBERIA; SOIL;

EID: 85013865624     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13650     Document Type: Article

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