Summer drought reduces total and litter-derived soil CO2 effluxes in temperate grassland - Clues from a 13C litter addition experiment

Biogeosciences

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1031-1041

  Joos, O ^a,b   Hagedorn, F ^b   Heim, A ^a   Gilgen, A K ^c,e   Schmidt, M W I ^a   Siegwolf, R T W ^d   Buchmann, N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON BALANCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DROUGHT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRASS; GRASSLAND; GRASSLAND SOIL; GROWING SEASON; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LITTER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RESPIRATION; REWETTING; SEASONALITY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SUMMER; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

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EID: 78650142546     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-7-1031-2010     Document Type: Article

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