Soil carbon and nitrogen in a pine-oak sand plain in central Massachusetts: Role of vegetation and land-use history

Oecologia

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 536-542

  Compton, Jana E ^a,b   Boone, Richard D ^a,c   Motzkin, Glenn ^a   Foster, David R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon storage; Land use history; Nitrification; Nitrogen mineralization; Species effects

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; LAND USE; NITROGEN; SOIL CARBON; VEGETATION HISTORY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031740861     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050619     Document Type: Article

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