Forest soil respiration and its heterotrophic and autotrophic components: Global patterns and responses to temperature and precipitation

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1236-1244

  Wei, Wang ^a   Weile, Chen ^a   Shaopeng, Wang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Autotrophic respiration; Heterotrophic respiration; Mean annual precipitation; Mean annual temperature; Non linear responses

Indexed keywords

AUTOTROPHIC RESPIRATION; CARBON BALANCE; CLIMATIC CONTROLS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST SOILS; FUTURE CLIMATE; GLOBAL DATABASE; GLOBAL PATTERNS; HETEROTROPHIC RESPIRATION; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; TWO-COMPONENT;

ARGON; ECOSYSTEMS; REFORESTATION; SOILS; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AUTOTROPHY; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST SOIL; HETEROTROPHY; NONLINEARITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RESPIRATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARGON; CLIMATES; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTS; PRECIPITATION; PYROMETRY; REFORESTATION; RESPIRATION; SOIL;

EID: 77954814896     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.04.013     Document Type: Article

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