Changes in forest soil organic matter pools after a decade of elevated CO2 and O3

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1518-1527

  Hofmockel, Kirsten S ^a,b   Zak, Donald R ^b   Moran, Kelly K ^c   Jastrow, Julie D ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

13C; 15N; Elevated CO2; Elevated O3; FACE experiment; Physical fractionation; POM; Soil C sequestration; Soil organic matter; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

13C; 15N; ELEVATED CO2; ELEVATED O3; FACE EXPERIMENT; PHYSICAL FRACTIONATION; POM; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ECOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; LAKES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OZONE; SOILS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; FOREST FLOOR; FOREST SOIL; GROWTH RESPONSE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; OZONE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PHYTOMASS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPOSPHERE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CHELATION; ECOLOGY; EXPERIMENTATION; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC MATTER; OZONE; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; SOIL;

ACER; ACER SACCHARUM; BETULA PAPYRIFERA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 79955953915     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.03.030     Document Type: Article

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