Soil organic carbon and black carbon storage and dynamics under different fire regimes in temperate mixed-grass savanna

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Ansley, R J ^a   Boutton, T W ^b   Skjemstad, J O ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; ORGANIC CARBON; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOIL SURVEYS;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BLACK CARBON; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FIRE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; SAVANNA; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 34248523439     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GB002670     Document Type: Article

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