Small scale spatial variability and pattern of soil respiration and water content in wet and adry temperate grasslands and bare soil

Ekologia Bratislava

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 389-398

  Szilvia, Fóti ^a   Zoltán, Nagy ^a   János, Balogh ^a   Sándor, Bartha ^b   Manuel, Acosta ^c   Szilárd, Czóbel ^a   Péli, Evelin R ^a   Marek, Michal V ^c   Zoltán, Tuba ^a  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Chamber technique; Coefficient of variation; Semivariance; Soil respiration; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BARE SOIL; CARBON DIOXIDE; GAS EXCHANGE; GEOSTATISTICS; GRASSLAND; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; SOIL CARBON; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL WATER; SPATIAL VARIATION; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 76549111407     PISSN: 1335342X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4149/ekol-2009-04-389     Document Type: Article

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