Oxygen effects on methane production and oxidation in humid tropical forest soils

Global Change Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1283-1297

  Teh, Yit Arn ^a,b,c   Silver, Whendee L ^a   Conrad, Mark E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

13C; Carbon dioxide; Isotope mass balance models; Methane emissions; Soil oxygen dynamics

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; FOREST SOIL; HUMID TROPICS; ISOTOPE; MASS BALANCE; METHANE; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; TROPICAL FOREST;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33644978782     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.00983.x     Document Type: Article

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