Brazil's Soil Carbon Stocks
Martial Bernoux*,a,
Maria da Conceição Santana Carvalhob,
Boris Volkoffa and
Carlos Clemente Cerrib
a Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Biogeoquimica Ambiental, CP 96, BR-13400-970, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil
b Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA), Biogeoquimica Ambiental, CP 96, BR-13400-970, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil

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Fig. 1. Soil and vegetation maps of Brazil with simplified legends (soil and vegetation categories are detailed in Tables 1 and 2).
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Fig. 2. Map of the soil carbon stocks (030 cm) in soils of Brazil under native vegatation.
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Copyright © 2002 by the Soil Science Society of America.