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SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 43, Issue 9, Pages 1992-1994Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.05.020
Keywords
Black carbon; Pyrogenic carbon; Molecular marker; Slash-and-burn practice; Charcoal; Tropical agro-ecosystem
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- University of Zurich Forschungskredit
- soil science group at the Department of Geography
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Charcoal stocks were determined in a chronosequence of soils which have been converted to agricultural land use by slash-and-burn up to 100 years ago. With time, opposite to our assumptions, the charcoal chemical quality, as measured by molecular markers for pyrogenic carbon, did not change and charcoal stocks did not show a clear decrease. Our results indicate that charcoal may resist chemical degradation even when exposed to intense weathering in a tropical climate. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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