Accounting more precisely for peat and other soil carbon resources

Recarbonization of the Biosphere: Ecosystems and the Global Carbon Cycle

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 127-158

  Jungkunst, Hermann F ^a   Krüger, Jan Paul ^a   Heitkamp, Felix ^a   Erasmi, Stefan ^a   Fiedler, Sabine ^b   Glatzel, Stephan ^c   Lal, Rattan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiotic; Aerobic decomposition; Anaerobic decomposition; Anoxic sites; Biodiesel; Biofuel; Bog; Carbon sequestration; Chernozems; CO2 equivalent; Ethanol; Fen; Fluvisols; Gleysols; Greyzem; Histosols; Hydromorphic soils; Kastanozem; Land cover; Land use change; Marsh; Methane; Mire; Oil palm; Peatland conversion; Peatland distribution; Permafrost; Phaeozem; Planosols; Podzols; Prairie; Seasonally inundated; Soil carbon budget; Sphagnum; Swamp; Temperate peatland; Tropical peatland; Turnover rate; Water table; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949184034     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4159-1_7     Document Type: Chapter

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