Interactions between soil and tree roots accelerate long-term soil carbon decomposition

Ecology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1046-1053

  Dijkstra, Feike A ^a,b   Cheng, Weixin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

13C labelling; Decomposition; Fremont cottonwood; Ponderosa pine; Priming effect; Rhizosphere; Roots; SOC turnover; Soil organic carbon; Tree species

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECOMPOSITION; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASPEN; BIOMASS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; PONDEROSA PINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RHIZOME; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; PINUS PONDEROSA; PLANT ROOTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULUS; RHIZOME; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

POPULUS FREMONTII;

EID: 34848832158     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01095.x     Document Type: Article

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