Controls on black carbon storage in soils

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Czimczik, Claudia I ^a   Masiello, Caroline A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHARCOAL; FIRES; LAND USE; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; SOILS; SOOT;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; PEDOGENESIS; SOIL CARBON; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

EID: 36749023237     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GB002798     Document Type: Article

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