Effects of different forest harvest intensities on the pools of exchangeable cations in coniferous forest soils

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 84, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 135-147

  Olsson, Bengt A ^a   Bengtsson, Jan ^a   Lundkvist, Heléne ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aluminium; Base cations; Clear felling; Soil acidification; Sweden; Whole tree harvesting

Indexed keywords

ABIES; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

ALUMINIUM; CEC; FOREST HARVEST; FOREST SOIL; LOGGING; SOIL ACIDIFICATION;

SWEDEN;

EID: 0030201328     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1127(96)03730-9     Document Type: Article

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