The production, allocation and cycling of carbon in a forest on fertile terra preta soil in eastern Amazonia compared with a forest on adjacent infertile soil

Plant Ecology and Diversity

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 41-53

  Doughty, Christopher E ^a   Metcalfe, Daniel B ^b   da Costa, Mauricio C ^c   de Oliveira, Alex A R ^c   Neto, G F C ^c   Silva, João A ^c   Aragão, Luiz E O C ^d   Almeida, Samuel S ^e   Quesada, Carlos A ^f   Girardin, Cecile A J ^a   Halladay, Kate ^a   da Costa, Anthonio C L ^c   Malhi, Yadvinder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^e MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI   (Brazil)

^f INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

anthrosol; carbon use efficiency (CUE); gross primary productivity (GPP); net primary production (NPP); terra preta; tropical forests

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893213503     PISSN: 17550874     EISSN: 17551668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2013.798367     Document Type: Article

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