Soil temperature, not aboveground plant productivity, best predicts intra-annual variations of soil respiration in central Iowa grasslands

Ecosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 909-920

  Dornbush, Mathew E ^a   Raich, James W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C3 versus C4; Iowa grasslands; Net primary productivity; Plant phenology; Root biomass; Soil carbon dioxide flux; Standing live biomass

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; GRASSLAND SOIL; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PHENOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

IOWA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750238210     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-005-0093-7     Document Type: Article

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