Higher subsoil carbon storage in species-rich than species-poor temperate forests

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Schleuß, Per Marten ^a   Heitkamp, Felix ^a   Leuschner, Christoph ^b   Fender, Ann Catrin ^b   Jungkunst, Hermann F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

carbon saturation; particle size fractionation; soil organic carbon; subsoil; tree diversity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; LAKES; PARTICLE SIZE; SOILS;

CARBON SATURATION; PARTICLE SIZE FRACTIONATION; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SUBSOIL; TREE DIVERSITY;

FORESTRY;

CARBON CYCLE; FOREST SOIL; GLOBAL CHANGE; PARTICLE SIZE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBSOIL; TEMPERATE FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; FORESTRY; LAKES; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 84893170126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/1/014007     Document Type: Article

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