Growing season nitrous oxide fluxes across a 125+ year harvested red spruce forest chronosequence

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 120, Issue 1-3, 2014, Pages 225-238

  McVicar, Kristie ^a   Kellman, Lisa ^a  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronosequence; Forest harvesting; Greenhouse gas fluxes; Nitrogen cycling; Nitrous oxide; Soil incubation; Soil moisture; Soil temperature

Indexed keywords

PICEA; PICEA RUBENS;

EID: 84904799845     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: 1573515X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-014-9992-z     Document Type: Article

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