Constant and diurnally-varying temperature regimes lead to different temperature sensitivities of soil organic carbon decomposition

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 866-869

  Zhu, Biao ^a   Cheng, Weixin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Q10; Soil microbes; Soil warming

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT TEMPERATURE; Q10; SOIL MICROBES; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL TEMPERATURE REGIMES; SOIL TYPES; SOIL WARMING; TEMPERATURE REGIMES; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TEMPERATURE TREATMENTS; VARYING TEMPERATURE;

FORESTRY; MICROORGANISMS; ORGANIC CARBON;

SOILS;

SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL QUALITY; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL TYPE; SUBSTRATE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THERMAL DECOMPOSITION;

EID: 79951673450     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.12.021     Document Type: Article

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