Quality or decomposer efficiency - Which is most important in the temperature response of litter decomposition? A modelling study using the GLUE methodology

Biogeosciences

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 477-487

  Wetterstedt, J A M ^a   Agren, G I ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DECOMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; LITTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RESPIRATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL RESPIRATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 79951878139     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-8-477-2011     Document Type: Article

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