Estimating soil organic carbon stocks and spatial patterns with statistical and GIS-based methods.

Accurately quantifying soil organic carbon (SOC) is considered fundamental to studying soil quality, modeling the global carbon cycle, and assessing global climate change. This study evaluated the uncertainties caused by up-scaling of soil properties from the county scale to the provincial scale and...

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Main Authors: Junjun Zhi, Changwei Jing, Shengpan Lin, Cao Zhang, Qiankun Liu, Stephen D DeGloria, Jiaping Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4026412?pdf=render