Carbon exchange in biological soil crust communities under differential temperatures and soil water contents: Implications for global change

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2763-2774

  Grote, Edmund E ^a   Belnap, Jayne ^a   Housman, David C ^a   Sparks, Jed P ^b  

^a Canyonlands Research Station   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dark respiration; Gross photosynthesis; Net photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CHANGE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOIL CRUST; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VASCULAR PLANT;

CHIHUAHUAN DESERT; COLORADO PLATEAU; UNITED STATES;

BRYOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 77956259933     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02201.x     Document Type: Article

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