Soil C and N pools in Chinese fir and evergreen broadleaf forests and their changes with slash burning in mid-subtropical China

Pedosphere

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 56-63

  Guo, Jian Fen ^a,b   Yang, Yu Sheng ^b   Chen, Guang Shui ^b   Xie, Jin Sheng ^c   Lin, Peng ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FUJIAN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese fir; Evergreen broadleaf forest; Slash burning; Soil carbon; Soil nitrogen

Indexed keywords

CLEARCUTTING; FOREST SOIL; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

CUNNINGHAMIA LANCEOLATA;

EID: 32044466231     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1002-0160(06)60026-X     Document Type: Article

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