Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration in Jatropha curcas Systems in Burkina Faso

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1813-1819

  Baumert, Sophia ^a   Khamzina, Asia ^a   Vlek, Paul L G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

13C natural abundance technique; chronosequence; Jatropha; living fences; West Africa

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; COPYRIGHTS; CROPS; FENCES; ORGANIC CARBON; REFORESTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS;

CHRONOSEQUENCES; JATROPHA; MONOCULTURE PLANTATIONS; NATURAL ABUNDANCE; ORGANIC MATTER INPUTS; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON SEQUESTRATION; WEST AFRICA;

SOIL CONSERVATION;

ANGIOSPERM; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHRONOSEQUENCE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

BURKINA FASO;

JATROPHA; JATROPHA CURCAS;

EID: 85027930068     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2310     Document Type: Article

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