Nitrous oxide production in boreal soils with variable organic matter content at low temperature - Snow manipulation experiment

Biogeosciences

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2461-2473

  Maljanen, M ^a   Virkajarvi P ^b   Hytonen J ^c   Oquist M ^d   Sparrman, T ^e   Martikainen, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b ANIMAL PRODUCTION RESEARCH   (Finland)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^e UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTIMATION METHOD; LOW TEMPERATURE; NITROUS OXIDE; ORGANIC MATTER; SNOW COVER; SOIL EMISSION; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

EID: 70749083602     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-6-2461-2009     Document Type: Article

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