Conventional intensive logging promotes loss of organic carbon from the mineral soil

Global Change Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 1-11

  Dean, Christopher ^a   Kirkpatrick, James B ^a   Friedland, Andrew J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon accounting; carbon emissions; forest carbon cycle; forest conversion; harvesting cycles; long term; primary forest; soil carbon; soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

CARBON; MINERAL; SOIL;

CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; SOIL;

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; MINERALS; SOIL;

EID: 84978870828     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13387     Document Type: Note

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