Integrating plant-soil interactions into global carbon cycle models

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 851-863

  Ostle, Nicholas J ^a   Smith, Pete ^b   Fisher, Rosie ^c   Ian Woodward, F ^c   Fisher, Joshua B ^d   Smith, Jo U ^b   Galbraith, David ^a,e   Levy, Peter ^a   Meir, Patrick ^e   McNamara, Niall P ^a   Bardgett, Richard D ^f  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon; Climate change; DGVM; Feedbacks; GCM; Models; PFT; Plant; Soil

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 68849093435     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01547.x     Document Type: Review

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