Carbon fluxes to the soil in a mature temperate forest assessed by 13C isotope tracing

Oecologia

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 489-501

  Steinmann, Katharina ^a,b   Siegwolf, Rolf T W ^a   Saurer, Matthias ^a   Körner, Christian ^b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carbon turnover; Functional groups; Soil respiration; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON BALANCE; CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; CARBON FLUX; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; SOIL RESPIRATION;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

CARBON;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; TREE;

CARBON ISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT ROOTS; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

EID: 16644366969     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-004-1674-4     Document Type: Article

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