Prolongation of soil frost resulting from reduced snow cover increases nitrous oxide emissions from boreal forest soil

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-42

  Maljanen, Marja ^a   Alm, Jukka ^b   Martikainen, Pertti J ^a   Repo, Tapani ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

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