Soil organic carbon in tropical forests of the United States of america

The Potential of U.S. Forest Soils to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 363-382

  Silver, Whendee L ^a   Lugo, Ariel E ^b   Farmer, Delphine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL FORESTRY   (Puerto Rico)

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