Soil methane sink capacity response to a long-term wildfire chronosequence in northern Sweden

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  McNamara, Niall P ^a   Gregg, Ruth ^a,f   Oakley, Simon ^a   Stott, Andy ^a   Rahman, Md Tanvir ^b   Murrell, J Colin ^c   Wardle, David A ^d   Bardgett, Richard D ^e,f   Ostle, Nick J ^a,f  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGLADESH AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^f LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHANE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL;

ARTICLE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FIRE; HUMUS; METHANOGENESIS; METHANOTROPH; OXIDATION; SOIL MICROFLORA; SWEDEN; TAIGA; VEGETATION; WILDFIRE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; FOREST; HUMAN; METABOLISM; SOIL;

FIRES; FORESTS; HUMANS; METHANE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOIL; SWEDEN;

EID: 84945910051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129892     Document Type: Article

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