Carbon cycling in forest ecosystems with an emphasis on belowground processes

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

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 93-107

  Pregitzer, Kurt S ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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