Short- and long-term responses of total soil organic carbon to harvesting in a northern hardwood forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1262-1267

  Johnson, Kristofer ^a   Scatena, Frederick N ^a   Pan, Yude ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest soil carbon; Northern hardwood forest; Process based modeling; Soil carbon modeling

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; DEAD WOOD; EMPIRICAL DATA; FOREST PLOTS; FOREST SOILS; HARVESTED STANDS; INTENSIVE SAMPLING; MANAGEMENT SCENARIOS; NORTHERN HARDWOOD FOREST; POSTHARVEST; PROCESS-BASED MODELING; RE-GROWTH; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON POOLS; SOIL POOLS; VERMONT;

BIOMASS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HARDWOODS; HARVESTING; LAKES; ORGANIC CARBON; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; ROTATION;

SOILS;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; DECIDUOUS FOREST; HARVESTING; ORGANIC CARBON; REGROWTH; SOIL CARBON;

BIOMASS; CARBON; FORESTRY; HARDWOODS; HARVESTING; LAKES; ROTATION; SOIL;

APPALACHIANS; GREEN MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; VERMONT;

EID: 76449085091     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.06.049     Document Type: Article

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