Biogeochemical factors contributing to enhanced carbon storage following afforestation of a semi-arid shrubland

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• shrubland 90%
• afforestation 88%
• carbon storage 84%
• decomposition 28%
• carbon sequestration 27%
• litter 18%
• ecosystem 11%
• accumulation rate 10%
• organic soil 10%
• semiarid region 10%
• arid region 10%
• forest soil 9%
• soil organic matter 9%
• fractionation 8%
• drying 8%
• productivity 6%
• land use 6%
• rate 6%
• vegetation 5%
• nitrogen 5%
• carbon 5%
• mineral 5%
• prediction 4%
• trend 4%
• analysis 2%

Agriculture & Biology

• afforestation 100%
• carbon sequestration 91%
• shrublands 84%
• degradation 24%
• ecosystems 14%
• Pinus halepensis 13%
• forest soils 11%
• organic soils 11%
• Mediterranean region 10%
• carbon nitrogen ratio 10%
• arid zones 10%
• land use 9%
• soil organic matter 9%
• fractionation 8%
• deterioration 7%
• drying 7%
• minerals 7%
• vegetation 7%
• prediction 6%
• carbon 6%
• nitrogen 5%