Temperature influences carbon accumulation in moist tropical forests

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 76-87

  Raich, James W ^a   Russell, Ann E ^a   Kitayama, Kanehiro ^b   Parton, William J ^c   Vitousek, Peter M ^d  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Belowground carbon allocation; Carbon cycle; Carbon turnover; Decomposition; Forest biomass; Forest productivity; Global warming; Mean annual temperature; Meta analysis; Net primary productivity; Soil organic matter; Tropical evergreen forests

Indexed keywords

CARBON; WATER;

BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GLOBAL WARMING; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; META ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIOMASS; CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER;

EID: 33644836606     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/05-0023     Document Type: Article

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