Stand age-related effects on soil respiration in a first rotation Sitka spruce chronosequence in central Ireland

Global Change Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1007-1020

  Saiz, Gustavo ^a   Byrne, Kenneth A ^b   Butterbach Bahl, Klaus ^c   Kiese, Ralf ^c   Blujdea, Viorel ^d   Farrell, Edward P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d Institutul de Cercetari si Amenajari Silvice Romania   (Romania)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Autotrophic respiration; Gley soil; Heterotrophic respiration; Q10; Root biomass; Sitka spruce; Soil respiration; Stand age

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CHRONOSEQUENCE; GLEYSOL; HETEROTROPHY; ROOT; SOIL RESPIRATION; STAND DYNAMICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

PICEA SITCHENSIS;

EID: 33646567186     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01145.x     Document Type: Article

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