Methane emissions from soils: Synthesis and analysis of a large UK data set

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1657-1669

  Levy, Peter E ^a   Burden, Annette ^a   Cooper, Mark D A ^a,b   Dinsmore, Kerry J ^a   Drewer, Julia ^a   Evans, Chris ^a   Fowler, David ^a   Gaiawyn, Jenny ^a   Gray, Alan ^a   Jones, Stephanie K ^a,c   Jones, Timothy ^a,b   Mcnamara, Niall P ^a   Mills, Robert ^a   Ostle, Nick ^a   Sheppard, Lucy J ^a   Skiba, Ute ^a   Sowerby, Alwyn ^a   Ward, Susan E ^a   Zieliński, Piotr ^b,d  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

Author keywords

CH 4; Data synthesis; Greenhouse gases; Meta analysis; Methane; Methanogenesis; Static chamber

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; GREENHOUSE GAS; METHANE; METHANOGENESIS; ORGANIC SOIL; OXIDATION; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PEATLAND; SOIL CARBON; SOIL EMISSION; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VEGETATION COVER;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84859547566     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02616.x     Document Type: Article

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