Evaluating timescales of carbon turnover in temperate forest soils with radiocarbon data

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 555-573

  Perruchoud, Daniel ^a,b   Joos, Fortunat ^c   Fischlin, Andreas ^a   Hajdas, Irka ^a   Bonani, Georges ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; FOREST SOIL; NUTRIENT CYCLING; SOIL CARBON; TEMPERATE FOREST;

EID: 0032704327     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GB900003     Document Type: Article

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