Soil carbon dynamics in a chronosequence of secondary forests in northeastern Costa Rica

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 1326-1335

  Schedlbauer, Jessica L ^a,b   Kavanagh, Kathleen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b CATIE   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Costa Rica; Secondary forest; Soil carbon; Soil respired CO2; Stable carbon isotopes; Tropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

CARBON; LAND USE; SOILS;

SOIL CARBON; STABLE CARBON ISOTOPES;

FORESTRY;

BULK DENSITY; C3 PLANT; C4 PLANT; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHRONOSEQUENCE; PASTURE; SECONDARY FOREST; SOIL CARBON; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL FOREST; TURNOVER;

CARBON; FORESTRY; LAND USE; SOIL;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

EID: 38949179901     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.10.039     Document Type: Article

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