Soil carbon in urban forest ecosystems

The Potential of U.S. Forest Soils to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 347-362

  Pouyat, Richard V ^a   Russell Anelli, Jonathan ^b   Yesilonis, Ian D ^c   Groffman, Peter M ^d  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

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