Soil carbon sequestration with forest expansion in an arctic forest-tundra landscape

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1538-1542

  Steltzer, Heidi ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN; RIVERS; SOILS;

FOREST EXPANSION; LITTER QUALITY; SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION;

FORESTRY;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; RANGE EXPANSION; SOIL CARBON; TUNDRA;

CARBON; CHELATION; FOREST CANOPY; NITROGEN; PICEA ENGELMANNII; RIVERS; SOIL;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PICEA; PICEA ENGELMANNII; PICEA GLAUCA;

EID: 4644371969     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X04-031     Document Type: Article

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