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Carbon sequestration through soil organic carbon : Estimation of SOC pool under different land uses in Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand state [1]

Soil organic carbon has been ignored since long because it was treated as a dead biomass but after the awareness related to climate change its importance has been recognized. A study was conducted to eliminate the SOC pool under different land uses in Rudrapryag district of Uttarakhand.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2012
M. K. Gupta [2], S. D. Sharma [3]
Indian Journal of Forestry [4]
35
3
279-284
Tags:
Carbon Sequestration [5], Soil Capability [6], Land Use [7], Rudraprayag (D) [8], Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand) [9], Biomass [10], Climate Change [11], Grasslands [12], Horticulture [13]
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