Carbon sequestration in a chronosequence of Scots pine stands in a reclaimed opencast oil shale mine

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1507-1517

  Karu, Helen ^a,b   Szava Kovats, Robert ^a   Pensa, Margus ^a   Kull, Olevi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ACCUMULATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHRONOSEQUENCES; ESTONIA; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FLOORS; FOREST SUCCESSION; MINE SPOIL; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; RADIOCARBON ANALYSIS; SCOTS PINE; SCOTS PINE STANDS; SIMPLE MODEL; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL PROFILES; TOTAL CARBON; TREE STEMS;

ECOSYSTEMS; MINING; OIL SHALE; REFORESTATION; SHALE; SHALE OIL; SOILS;

ORGANIC CARBON;

AFFORESTATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FLOOR; LAND DEGRADATION; LITTER; OIL SHALE; OPENCAST MINING; ORGANIC CARBON; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL PROFILE; SUCCESSION;

CARBON; CHELATION; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEMS; MINING; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; REFORESTATION;

BALTIC STATES; ESTONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NARVA; NORTHERN EUROPE;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 69249158632     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X09-069     Document Type: Article

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