Spatiotemporal analysis of black spruce forest soils and implications for the fate of C

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Harden, Jennifer W ^a   Manies, Kristen L ^a   O'Donnell, Jonathan ^b,f   Johnson, Kristofer ^b,c   Frolking, Steve ^d   Fan, Zhaosheng ^e  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c Climate Fire and Carbon Cycle Sciences Unit US Forest Service Northern Research Station ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; BURNING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHRONOSEQUENCE; COMBUSTION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECOMPOSITION; EDDY COVARIANCE; FOREST SOIL; LEACHING; MASS BALANCE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; ORGANIC SOIL; SOIL HORIZON; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE;

ALASKA; CANADA; UNITED STATES;

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 84857097655     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JG001826     Document Type: Article

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