Soil organic carbon stocks of afforested peatlands in Ireland

Forestry

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 441-451

  Wellock, Michael L ^a   Reidy, Brian ^b   Laperle, Christina M ^a   Bolger, Thomas ^b   Kiely, Gerard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; CARBON BUDGET; LITERATURE REVIEW; PEATLAND; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

IRELAND;

EID: 80053281106     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpr046     Document Type: Article

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