Soil organic matter quality influences mineralization and GHG emissions in cryosols: A field-based study of sub- to high Arctic

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1126-1140

  Paré, Maxime ^a,b   Bedard Haughn, Angela ^b  

^a Agrinova   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon; Carbon dioxide; Circumpolar; Methane; Nitrogen; Nitrous oxide; Taiga; Tundra

Indexed keywords

MINERAL;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; GREENHOUSE GAS; METHANE; MINERALIZATION; NITROGEN; NITROUS OXIDE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROPERTY; TUNDRA SOIL;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GAS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; SOIL;

ARCTIC REGIONS; GASES; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MINERALS; SOIL;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84874732730     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12125     Document Type: Article

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