Warming mineralises young and old soil carbon equally

Biogeosciences

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 515-519

  Conen, F ^a   Leifeld, J ^b   Seth, B ^a   Alewell, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GAS; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECOMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL CARBON; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WARMING;

EID: 33750925367     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-3-515-2006     Document Type: Article

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