Solar UVB and warming affect decomposition and earthworms in a fen ecosystem in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

Global Change Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2493-2502

  Zaller, Johann G ^a,e   Caldwell, Martyn M ^a,b   Flint, Stephan D ^a   Ballaré, Carlos L ^c   Scopel, Ana L ^c   Sala, Osvaldo E ^d  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biomass production; Carex curta; Carex decidua; Decomposition; Dendrobaena octaedra; Earthworms; Ecosystem functioning; Global change; Global warming; Ozone depletion; Soil heterotrophs

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND PRODUCTION; AMBIENT AIR; BELOWGROUND PRODUCTION; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECOMPOSITION; EARTHWORM; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEN; FIELD SURVEY; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; SEDGE; SOLAR RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; WARMING;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA; TIERRA DEL FUEGO [(PRV) ARGENTINA];

CAREX; CAREX CANESCENS CANESCENS; CAREX DECIDUA; DENDROBAENA OCTAEDRA;

EID: 70349141449     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01970.x     Document Type: Article

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