Soil carbon pools in Swiss forests show legacy effects from historic forest litter raking

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 835-846

  Gimmi, Urs ^a   Poulter, Benjamin ^a,b   Wolf, Annett ^c   Portner, Hanspeter ^c   Weber, Pascale ^a   Bürgi, Matthias ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical modeling; Historical ecology; Land use legacy; Recovery time; Soil carbon pool; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

CARBON BALANCE; CARBON SINK; CATTLE; FOREST; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; LAND USE; LITTER; MEADOW; RECOVERY; SOIL CARBON; STATISTICAL DATA; VEGETATION;

SWITZERLAND;

BOS;

EID: 84876983926     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9778-4     Document Type: Article

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