Soil carbon sequestration and land-use change: Processes and potential

Global Change Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 317-327

  Post, W M ^a   Kwon, K C ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Land use; Reforestation; Soil carbon

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; LAND USE; REFORESTATION; SOIL CARBON;

EID: 0034009113     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.2000.00308.x     Document Type: Article

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