Soil carbon dynamics across a windthrow disturbance sequence in southeast Alaska

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2230-2244

  Kramer, Marc G ^a   Sollins, Phillip ^b   Sletten, Ronald S ^c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

13C solid state NMR; Humification; Illuviation; Lateral flow; Mineral soil carbon; Natural isotope abundance; Podzolization; Soil mixing; Soil organic matter; Temperate rain forest; Tree uprooting; Windthrow disturbance

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; RAINFOREST; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; WINDTHROW;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 8144222959     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-4098     Document Type: Article

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