Storage and turnover of carbon in grassland soils along an elevation gradient in the Swiss Alps

Global Change Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 668-679

  Leifeld, Jens ^a   Zimmermann, Michael ^b   Fuhrer, Jürg ^a   Conen, Franz ^c  

^a AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Geography School of Geosciences   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Global warming; Grassland; NaOCl; Radiocarbon; RothC; Soil carbon turnover; Soil fractionation

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GRASSLAND SOIL; RADIOCARBON DATING; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 59849111469     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01782.x     Document Type: Article

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