Soil carbon change through 2 m during forest succession alongside a 30-year agroecosystem experiment

Forest Science

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 36-50

  Devine, Scott ^a   Markewitz, Daniel ^a   Hendrix, Paul ^a   Coleman, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregate stability; Conventional tillage; Dissolved organic carbon; No till; Particulate organic carbon

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL MOISTURE;

AGGREGATE STABILITY; CONVENTIONAL TILLAGE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; NO-TILL; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON;

SOILS;

EID: 79952584810     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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