Effects of diurnal warming on soil respiration are not equal to the summed effects of day and night warming in a temperate steppe

Biogeosciences

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1361-1370

  Xia, J ^a,b   Han, Y ^a,b   Zhang, Z ^a,a,b,b   Wan, S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; DIEL VARIATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOIL RESPIRATION; STEPPE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; WARMING; WATER AVAILABILITY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 69249205635     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-6-1361-2009     Document Type: Article

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