Does variability in litter quality determine soil microbial respiration in an Amazonian rainforest?

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1014-1022

  Fanin, Nicolas ^a   Hättenschwiler, Stephan ^a   Barantal, Sandra ^a   Schimann, Heidy ^b   Fromin, Nathalie ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b Campus Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

Carbon forms; French Guiana; Litter quality; Microbial respiration process; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Stoichiometry

Indexed keywords

AMAZONIAN RAINFOREST; CARBON FORMS; FRENCH GUIANA; HIERARCHICAL SAMPLING; LABILE C; LEAF LITTER; LINEAR MODEL; LITTER LAYER; LITTER QUALITY; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; N CONTENT; PLANT LITTER; QUALITY PARAMETERS; SMALL SCALE; SOIL MICRO-ORGANISMS; SOIL MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; SOURCE OF ENERGY; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SUBSTRATE-INDUCED RESPIRATIONS; TREE CANOPY; TREE COMMUNITY; TREE SPECIES; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; PHYSIOLOGY; SOILS; STOICHIOMETRY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

FORESTRY;

FOREST CANOPY; FOREST SOIL; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LEAF LITTER; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFOREST; SAMPLING; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; STOICHIOMETRY;

FOREST LITTER; FRENCH GUIANA; MICROORGANISMS; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; PH; PHOSPHORUS; RESPIRATION; STOICHIOMETRY; VARIABILITY;

AMAZONIA; FRENCH GUIANA;

EID: 79952440844     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.01.018     Document Type: Article

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