Inter-laboratory variation in the chemical analysis of acidic forest soil reference samples from eastern North America

Ecosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Ross, D S ^a   Bailey, S W ^b   Briggs, R D ^c   Curry, J ^d   Fernandez, I J ^e   Fredriksen, G ^f   Goodale, C L ^f   Hazlett, P W ^d   Heine, P R ^g   Johnson, C E ^h   Larson, J T ^b   Lawrence, G B ⁱ   Kolka, R K ^b   Ouimet, R ^j   Pare D ^k   Richter, D Deb ^g   Schirmer, C D ^c   Warby, R A ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^f Ecology and Evolutionary Biology E213 Corson Hall Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^g DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h Syracuse University   (United States)

ⁱ U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^j Service de la Faune Aquatique Ministere des Forêts de la Faune et des Parcs du Québec   (Canada)

^k LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^l Warby Group LLC   (United States)

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Author keywords

Aluminum; Calcium; Carbon; Forest soils; Inter laboratory variability; Laboratory methods; pH; Reference soils; Soil analysis; Special feature: Uncertainty analysis; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929352984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES14-00209.1     Document Type: Article

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