A method for experimental heating of intact soil profiles for application to climate change experiments

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1083-1096

  Hanson, Paul J ^a   Childs, Kenneth W ^b   Wullschleger, Stan D ^a   Riggs, Jeffery S ^b   Thomas, Warren K ^b   Todd, Donald E ^a   Warren, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; CO2 efflux; Drying; Soil; Warming

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEATING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78650795682     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02221.x     Document Type: Article

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