Differential responses of auto- and heterotrophic soil respiration to water and nitrogen addition in a semiarid temperate steppe

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2345-2357

  Yan, Liming ^a,b   Chen, Shiping ^a   Huang, Jianhui ^a   Lin, Guanghui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Autotrophic respiration; Heterotrophic respiration; Nitrogen; Precipitation; Soil respiration; Temperature sensitivity

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GLOBAL CHANGE; NITROGEN CYCLE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; STEPPE; WATER BUDGET;

CHINA;

EID: 77955069629     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02091.x     Document Type: Article

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