Modeling soil thermal and carbon dynamics of a fire chronosequence in interior Alaska

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Zhuang, Q ^a   McGuire, A D ^a   O'Neill, K P ^b   Harden, J W ^c   Romanovsky, V E ^a   Yarie, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon; Fire; Hydrology; Nitrogen; Permafrost

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHRONOSEQUENCE; FOREST FIRE; PERMAFROST;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0347269064     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jd001244     Document Type: Article

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