Dynamics of soil carbon following destruction of tropical rainforest and the subsequent establishment of Imperata grassland in Indonesian Borneo using stable carbon isotopes

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2606-2616

  Yonekura, Yusuke ^a   Ohta, Seiichi ^a   Kiyono, Yoshiyuki ^b   Aksa, Darul ^c   Morisada, Kazuhito ^b   Tanaka, Nagaharu ^b   Tayasu, Ichiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c MULAWARMAN UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Afforestation or Reforestation Clean Development Mechanism; Alang alang; Carbon sequestration; Cogon grass; Land use change; Mathematical modelling; Soil organic matter; Southeast Asia; Stable carbon isotope; Tropical deforestation

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; DEFORESTATION; GRASSLAND; LAND USE CHANGE; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFOREST; REFORESTATION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DYNAMICS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUBSOIL; TOPSOIL; TROPICAL REGION;

BORNEO; INDONESIA;

IMPERATA; IMPERATA CYLINDRICA;

EID: 84863629071     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02722.x     Document Type: Article

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