A critique of the paper ‘Soil carbon 4 per mille' by Minasny et al. (2017)

Geoderma

Volumn 309, Issue , 2018, Pages 115-117

  White, Robert E ^a   Davidson, Brian ^a   Lam, Shu Kee ^a   Chen, Deli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Climate change; Cost and benefits; Greenhouse gas abatement; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

EID: 85021261749     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2017.05.025     Document Type: Letter

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