Experimental drought in a tropical rain forest increases soil carbon dioxide losses to the atmosphere

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2313-2323

  Cleveland, Cory C ^a   Wieder, William R ^b   Reed, Sasha C ^a,c   Townsend, Alan R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Climate change; Experimental drought; Golfo dulce forest reserve, Costa Rica; Soil respiration; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; RAIN; WATER; SOIL;

AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; BIOME; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; DROUGHT; LITTER; OXYGEN; RAINFALL; RAINFOREST; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL SURFACE; THROUGHFALL; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; DROUGHT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL; TIME; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE; ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DROUGHTS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RAIN; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TIME FACTORS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 77955447722     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1582.1     Document Type: Article

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