A paired study of prairie carbon stocks, fluxes, and phenology: Comparing the world's oldest prairie restoration with an adjacent remnant

Global Change Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 122-139

  Kucharik, Christopher J ^a   Fayram, Nathan J ^b   Cahill, Kimberly Nicholas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon cycling; Carbon sequestration; Phenology; Prairie restoration; Soil respiration

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; PHENOLOGY; PRAIRIE; SOIL RESPIRATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 33645875877     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.01053.x     Document Type: Article

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