Use of pyrolysis molecular beam mass spectrometry (py-MBMS) to characterize forest soil carbon: Method and preliminary results

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 116, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2002, Pages

  Magrini, K A ^a   Evans, R J ^a   Hoover, C M ^b   Elam, C C ^a   Davis, M F ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Forest soils; Pyrolysis mass spectroscopy; Rapid soil analysis; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATES; CARBON; COMPOSITION; LIGNIN; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MOLECULAR BEAMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PYROLYSIS; SOILS;

SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

FORESTRY;

AROMATIC COMPOUND; CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON; LIGNIN; ORGANIC MATTER; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

FOREST SOIL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PYROLYSIS; SOIL CARBON;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DECOMPOSITION; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PLANT; POLLUTION; PREDICTION; SAMPLING; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTION;

CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PLANT LEAVES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 0036150035     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(01)00257-3     Document Type: Article

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