Forest soil carbon is threatened by intensive biomass harvesting

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Achat, David L ^a   Fortin, Mathieu ^b   Landmann, Guy ^c   Ringeval, Bruno ^a   Augusto, Laurent ^b  

^a BORDEAUX SCIENCES AGRO   (France)

^b LERFoB   (France)

^c GIP ECOFOR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; SOIL;

BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST; FORESTRY; META ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SOIL; TREE;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; FORESTS; SOIL; TREES;

EID: 84946593585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep15991     Document Type: Article

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