No differences in soil carbon stocks across the tree line in the Peruvian Andes

Ecosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 62-74

  Zimmermann, Michael ^a   Meir, Patrick ^a   Silman, Miles R ^b   Fedders, Anna ^b   Gibbon, Adam ^c   Malhi, Yadvinder ^c   Urrego, Dunia H ^d   Bush, Mark B ^d   Feeley, Kenneth J ^b   Garcia, Karina C ^b,e   Dargie, Greta C ^a   Farfan, Wiliam R ^b,e   Goetz, Bradley P ^b   Johnson, Wesley T ^b   Kline, Krystle M ^b   Modi, Andrew T ^b   Rurau, Natividad M Q ^e   Staudt, Brian T ^b   Zamora, Flor ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN ANTONIO ABAD DEL CUSCO   (Peru)

Author keywords

Puna; Soil carbon stocks; Tree line; Tropical montane cloud forest

Indexed keywords

CLOUD FOREST; GLOBAL WARMING; GRASSLAND; SHRUBLAND; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROFILE; TREELINE;

ANDES; PERU; PUNA;

EID: 77949264259     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-009-9300-2     Document Type: Article

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