Carbon sequestration potential of five tree species in a 25-year-old temperate tree-based intercropping system in southern Ontario, Canada

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 631-643

  Wotherspoon, Amy ^a   Thevathasan, Naresh V ^a   Gordon, Andrew M ^a   Voroney, R Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; C pools and fluxes; C sequestration; Greenhouse gases; Intercropping

Indexed keywords

ABIES; CHAMAECYPARIS; GLYCINE MAX; JUGLANS NIGRA; PICEA ABIES; POPULUS; POPULUS DELTOIDES; POPULUS NIGRA; QUERCUS RUBRA; THUJA OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 84905578465     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-014-9719-0     Document Type: Article

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