Respiration of the belowground parts of vascular plants: Its contribution to total soil respiration on a successional glacier foreland in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard

Polar Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 53-60

  Nakatsubo, T ^a   Bekku, Y ^b   Kume, A ^a   Koizumi, H ^c  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; SOIL RESPIRATION; SUCCESSION; VASCULAR PLANT;

NY-ALESUND; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

LUZULA CONFUSA; SALIX POLARIS; SAXIFRAGA OPPOSITIFOLIA;

EID: 0032418497     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-8369.1998.tb00258.x     Document Type: Article

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