High nature value farmland: Assessment of soil organic carbon in Europe

Frontiers in Environmental Science

Volumn 4, Issue JUN, 2016, Pages

  Gardi, Ciro ^a   Visioli, Giovanna ^b   Conti, Federica D ^b   Scotti, Marco ^c   Menta, Cristina ^b   Bodini, Antonio ^b  

^a EUROPEAN FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecosystem services; HNV farmland; Land use; LUCAs dataset; Soil carbon storage

Indexed keywords

EID: 85038941543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2016.00047     Document Type: Article

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