Impacts of natural disturbance on soil carbon dynamics in forest cosystems

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

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 159-172

  Overby, Steven T ^a   Hart, Stephen C ^b   Neary, Daniel G ^c  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

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