Temperature and moisture effects on respiration rate of decomposing logs in a Sitka spruce plantation in Ireland

Forestry

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 485-496

  Olajuyigbe, Samuel ^a   Tobin, Brian ^a   Nieuwenhuis, Maarten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGE CLASS; CARBON FLUX; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECOMPOSITION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LOGGING (TIMBER); MOISTURE CONTENT; PLANTATION FORESTRY; RESPIRATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

IRELAND;

PICEA SITCHENSIS;

EID: 84866067207     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: 14643626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cps045     Document Type: Article

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