Post-thinning soil organic matter evolution and soil CO2 effluxes in temperate radiata pine plantations: Impacts of moderate thinning regimes on the forest C cycle

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1953-1964

  Fernandez, Irene ^a   Álvarez González, Juan Gabriel ^b   Carrasco, Beatríz ^a   Ruíz González, Ana Daría ^b   Cabaneiro, Ana ^a  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones Agrobiológicas de Galicia del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CO; C MINERALIZATION; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; CLIMATIC CHANGES; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST SOILS; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; PINUS RADIATA; RADIATA PINE; SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS; SOIL CO; SOIL HEATING; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL SAMPLE; SOLID-STATE 13C-NMR; STORAGE CAPACITY; TEMPORAL CHANGE; THINNING REGIMES;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS;

FORESTRY;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HEATING; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SILVICULTURE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL RESPIRATION; THINNING;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIODEGRADABILITY; CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; GEOCHEMISTRY; ORGANIC MATTER; PINUS RADIATA; PLANTATIONS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL; THINNING;

PINUS RADIATA; RADIATA;

EID: 84870156481     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x2012-137     Document Type: Article

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