Modelling soil carbon sequestration of intensively monitored forest plots in Europe by three different approaches

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1780-1793

  Mol Dijkstra, Janet P ^a   Reinds, Gert Jan ^a   Kros, Hans ^a   Berg, Björn ^b   de Vries, Wim ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Chronosequences; Dynamic modelling; Limit value concept; Monitoring; Nitrogen balance; Nutrient cycling; Soil

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHRONOSEQUENCES; DYNAMIC MODELLING; LIMIT-VALUE CONCEPT; NITROGEN BALANCE; NUTRIENT CYCLING;

CALCIUM; MINING; MONITORING; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; SOILS;

FORESTRY;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHRONOSEQUENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOREST SOIL; LITTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT BUDGET; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; TOPSOIL;

CALCIUM; CARBON; CHELATION; FORESTRY; MINING; MONITORING; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; SOIL;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 69349098333     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.09.011     Document Type: Article

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