Soil carbon turnover and sequestration in native subtropical tree plantations

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2078-2090

  Richards, Anna E ^a,b   Dalal, Ram C ^b,c   Schmidt, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Research School of Biological Sciences   (Australia)

^c Department of Natural Resources and Water ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

13C; Araucaria; Carbon sequestration; Century model; Light fraction carbon; Soil organic carbon; Tree plantations

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DEFORESTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CENTURY MODELS; LIGHT FRACTION CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; TREE PLANTATIONS;

SOILS;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; PLANTATION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS;

CARBON; DEFORESTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOIL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

ARAUCARIA; ARAUCARIA CUNNINGHAMII;

EID: 34248588048     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2007.03.012     Document Type: Article

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