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soil organic carbon
- Subject Category
- P Natural Resources, Earth and Environmental Sciences
- W Physical and Chemical Sciences
- Definition
- That portion of non-living organic compounds in the top one meter of soil, e.g. humus, which is important to soil quality and plant nutrition and is replenished by the decomposition of plant material.
- Definition Source
- NAL Thesaurus Staff
- RDF/XML Format:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/67854.rdf
- Persistent URI:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/67854
- Used For
- organic soil carbon
- Broader Term
- organic carbon
- soil carbon
- soil organic matter
- Narrower Term
- labile carbon
- Related Term
- carbon sequestration
- global carbon budget
- soil inorganic carbon
- Spanish
- carbono orgánico del suelo
- Term Number
- 67854