Global change and forest soils

The Potential of U.S. Forest Soils to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 127-134

  Hom, John ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

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