Dealing with the limitations of soil inventories for assessing soil organic carbon stocks KU Leuven
Storage of soil organic carbon (SOC) is an essential function of ecosystems underpinning the delivery of multiple services to society: e.g. the production of food, wood, bio-energy and water and the regulation of the global climate, nutrient availability and the hydrological cycle. Whereas SOC content (%) is part of the routine measurements in general-purpose soil survey projects and in monitoring schemes of agricultural and forest soils, the ...