The influence of drainage networks on patterns of soil respiration in a desert catchment

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1089-1100

  Sponseller, Ryan A ^a,b   Fisher, Stuart G ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrologic flow paths; Landscape position; Pulse dynamics; Soil respiration; Sonoran Desert; Stream networks

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; RAIN; WATER;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CATCHMENT; DESERT; DRAINAGE NETWORK; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; LANDSCAPE; PLANT; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL RESPIRATION; STREAMFLOW; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SEASON; SOIL;

BACTERIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; RAIN; SEASONS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WATER;

NORTH AMERICA; SONORAN DESERT;

EID: 42949169620     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1933.1     Document Type: Article

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