SEASONAL AND DEPTH-WISE DYNAMICS OF SOIL CHEMICAL PROPERTIES UNDER ARID-ZONE TREE PLANTATIONS IN SARDARSHAHAR, RAJASTHAN (INDIA): IMPLICATIONS FOR SAMPLING DESIGN IN SOIL CARBON INVENTORIES
Soil carbon and nutrient inventories in dryland regions are commonly built on single-occasion sampling, an approach that implicitly assumes temporal stability of the measured properties. This study tested that assumption by monitoring seven soil chemical properties under six tree species — Tecomella undulata, Ailanthus...