Impacts of intensive management and genetic improvement on soil CO₂ efflux and carbon cycling in managed loblolly pine forests

Abstract

In the southeastern United States, fertilization and weed control treatments, with deployment of genetically improved seedlings planting stock, are routinely used to increase aboveground productivity (Jokela and others 2004).

Parent Publication

• Proceedings of the 17th biennial southern silvicultural research conference

Citation

Drum, Chelsea G.; Jokela, Eric J.; Vogel, Jason G.; Schuur, Edward A. G.; Gezan, Salvador. 2015. Impacts of intensive management and genetic improvement on soil CO₂ efflux and carbon cycling in managed loblolly pine forests. In Proceedings of the 17th biennial southern silvicultural research conference. e–Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS–203. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 2 p.