Usefulness of the carbon-13 tracer technique for characterizing terrestrial carbon pools

Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems

Volumn 49, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 261-266

  Liu, R ^a   Clapp, C E ^b   Cheng, H H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

13C abundance; 13C discrimination; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

EID: 25144515548     PISSN: 13851314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1009783825283     Document Type: Article

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