Long-term stabilization of deep soil carbon by fire and burial during early Holocene climate change

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 428-432

  Marin Spiotta, Erika ^a   Chaopricha, Nina T ^a   Plante, Alain F ^b   Diefendorf, Aaron F ^c   Mueller, Carsten W ^d   Grandy, A Stuart ^e   Mason, Joseph A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; BLACK CARBON; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DISTURBANCE; DROUGHT; FIRE BEHAVIOR; HOLOCENE; LOESS; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL CARBON; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION COVER;

NEBRASKA; UNITED STATES;

PEORIA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84901710045     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2169     Document Type: Article

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