Harvest impacts on soil carbon storage in temperate forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 857-866

  Nave, Lucas E ^a,b   Vance, Eric D ^c   Swanston, Christopher W ^d   Curtis, Peter S ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR AIR AND STREAM IMPROVEMENT   (United States)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest management; Harvest; Meta analysis; Site preparation; Soil carbon; Soil order

Indexed keywords

FOREST MANAGEMENT; META-ANALYSIS; SITE PREPARATION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORDERS;

FLOORS; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; MINERALS; SILICATE MINERALS; TAXONOMIES;

SOILS;

CARBON BALANCE; CARBON CYCLE; FOREST FLOOR; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST SOIL; HARVESTING; META-ANALYSIS; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL TYPE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATE FOREST;

CARBON; FLOORS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; FORESTS; HARVESTING; MINERALS; RESEARCH; SILICATES; SITE PREPARATION; SOIL; TAXONOMY;

EID: 74449091720     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.12.009     Document Type: Review

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