What is the impact of afforestation on the carbon stocks of Irish mineral soils?

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 262, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1589-1596

  Wellock, Michael L ^a   LaPerle, Christina M ^a   Kiely, Gerard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Carbon; Paired sites; Sequestration; Soil

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; BASELINE DATA; CARBON EMISSIONS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON STOCKS; CORRECTION METHOD; IRELAND; MINERAL SOILS; PAIRED SITES; RESAMPLING; SEQUESTRATION; SOIL BULK DENSITY; SOIL MASS; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; TEMPERATE CLIMATE; TREE BIOMASS;

CLIMATOLOGY; ORGANIC CARBON; SOILS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

REFORESTATION;

AFFORESTATION; BULK DENSITY; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CORRECTION; FOREST SOIL; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC CARBON; PHYTOMASS; SAMPLING; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

IRELAND;

EID: 80051814728     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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