Relationships between carbon turnover and bioavailable energy fluxes in two temperate forest soils

Global Change Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 919-929

  Currie, William S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon cycling; Coarse woody debris; Decomposition; Energetics; Litter quality; Soil ecology

Indexed keywords

BIOAVAILABILITY; CARBON CYCLE; DECOMPOSITION; ENERGETICS; FOREST SOIL; GLOBAL CHANGE; SOIL CARBON;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037743686     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.2003.00637.x     Document Type: Article

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