Changes in soil carbon with stand age - An evaluation of a modelling method with empirical data

Global Change Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2078-2091

  Peltoniemi, Mikko ^a   Mäkipää, Raisa ^a   Liski, Jari ^b,c   Tamminen, Pekka ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b EUROPEAN FOREST INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Accumulation; Boreal forest; Decomposition; Forest management; Mineral soil; Organic layer; Simulation; Soil carbon; Soil model; Testing

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST SOIL; MODEL; ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL CARBON; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 10944244113     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00881.x     Document Type: Article

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