Cold-season soil respiration in response to grazing and warming in High-Arctic Svalbard

Polar Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 46-57

  Strebel, Ditte ^a,b   Elberling, Bo ^a,b   Morgner, Elke ^b,c   Knicker, Heike E ^d   Cooper, Elisabeth J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^d INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Goose grazing; SOC turnover; Soil respiration; Spitsbergen; Tundra vegetation; Warming

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; GRAZING; GROWING SEASON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL RESPIRATION; TUNDRA; VEGETATION TYPE; WARMING; WATERFOWL;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ANSER;

EID: 78649912749     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: 17518369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-8369.2010.00154.x     Document Type: Article

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