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The University of Maine

2008

Nutrient cycles

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Tb200: Carbon And Nutrients In Maine Forest Soils, Ivan J. Fernandez Nov 2008

Tb200: Carbon And Nutrients In Maine Forest Soils, Ivan J. Fernandez

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Recent public concerns surrounding climate change and greenhouse gas emissions have resulted in a lively debate about approaches to fossil fuel offsets and carbon (C) sequestration in forests. The forest community sees opportunities for the intensification of the use of forests for markets ranging from forest products, such as fuel or fuel feedstock, to a range of new bioproducts. This report provides initial insights from an ongoing effort to synthesize forest soils data for Maine. The specific objectives presented here were (1) to develop descriptive statistics for C and measures of available forms of the essential nutrients N, P, and …