Groundwater level controls CO2, N2O and CH4 fluxes of three different hydromorphic soil types of a temperate forest ecosystem

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2047-2054

  Jungkunst, Hermann F ^a   Flessa, Heiner ^a   Scherber, Christoph ^a   Fiedler, Sabine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

CH4; Climate feedback; CO2; CO2 equivalent; Greenhouse gases; Microcosm study; N2O; O2; Soil type; Water table

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; COBALT ALLOYS; COBALT COMPOUNDS; GAS PLANTS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; GREENHOUSES; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; LEAKAGE (FLUID); OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER CONTENT; WATER LEVELS;

AERATED SOILS; CARBON CONTENTS; FOREST SOILS; GHG EMISSIONS; GREEN HOUSE GAS (GHG) EMISSIONS; GROUND WATER LEVELS; HYDROMORPHIC SOILS; MICROCOSM EXPERIMENTS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER (SOM); SOIL TYPES; SOIL WATER;

SOIL POLLUTION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST SOIL; GREENHOUSE GAS; METHANE; MICROCOSM; NITROUS OXIDE; OXIC CONDITIONS; OXYGEN; SOIL EMISSION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL TYPE; SOIL WATER; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; WATER LEVEL;

EID: 45549087232     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2008.04.015     Document Type: Article

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