Greater soil carbon stocks and faster turnover rates with increasing agricultural productivity

SOIL

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 1-16

  Sanderman, Jonathan ^a,d   Creamer, Courtney ^a,e   Baisden, W Troy ^b   Farrell, Mark ^a   Fallon, Stewart ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; BIOAVAILABILITY; CARBON CYCLE; CROP ROTATION; FOOD SECURITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; STABILIZATION;

EID: 85030566896     PISSN: 21993971     EISSN: 2199398X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/soil-3-1-2017     Document Type: Article

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