Impact of rainfall manipulations and biotic controls on soil respiration in Mediterranean and desert ecosystems along an aridity gradient

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1108-1118

  Talmon, Yiftach ^a   Sternberg, Marcelo ^b   Grünzweig, José M ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Climate change; CO2 fluxes; CO2 pulses; Droughting; Mediterranean shrubland; Shrub microsite; Soil CO2 efflux; Soil organic carbon stock; Supplemented rainfall

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; BIOTIC FACTOR; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DESERT; DROUGHT; LAND TYPE; ORGANIC CARBON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SHRUB; SHRUBLAND; SOIL CARBON; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL WATER; WATER AVAILABILITY;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 78650777328     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02285.x     Document Type: Article

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