Afforestation effects on SOC in former cropland: Oak and spruce chronosequences resampled after 13 years

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2938-2952

  Bárcena, Teresa G ^a   Gundersen, Per ^a   Vesterdal, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Carbon stocks; Chronosequence; Forest floor; Mineral soil; Repeated sampling

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHRONOSEQUENCE; DECIDUOUS TREE; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST FLOOR; ORGANIC CARBON; SAMPLING; SUBSOIL; TOPSOIL;

CARBON; SOIL;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHEMISTRY; DENMARK; FOREST; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; OAK; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPRUCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

CARBON; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DENMARK; FORESTS; LINEAR MODELS; PICEA; QUERCUS; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84905055566     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12608     Document Type: Article

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