Are Swedish forest soils sinks or sources for CO2 - Model analyses based on forest inventory data

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 217-227

  Ågren, Göran I ^a   Hyvönen, Riitta ^a   Nilsson, Torbjörn ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Carbon balance; Carbon modelling; Forest soils

Indexed keywords

CARBON BALANCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; DECOMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST SOIL; LITTERFALL; MINERALIZATION; SOIL CARBON; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 33947266614     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: 1573515X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-006-9064-0     Document Type: Article

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