Understory plants can make substantial contributions to soil respiration: Evidence from two subtropical plantations

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2355-2357

  Wu, Jianping ^a,b   Liu, Zhanfeng ^a   Chen, Dima ^a   Huang, Guomin ^a   Zhou, Lixia ^a   Fu, Shenglei ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b NANCHANG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Root respiration; Soil respiration; Understory plants

Indexed keywords

CARBON BUDGETS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; EUCALYPTUS PLANTATIONS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; ROOT RESPIRATION; SOIL RESPIRATION; SUBTROPICAL FORESTS; UNDERSTORY PLANTS;

ECOSYSTEMS; PHYSIOLOGY; SOILS; TROPICS;

FORESTRY;

CARBON BUDGET; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EVERGREEN FOREST; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANTATION FORESTRY; ROOT SYSTEM; SOIL RESPIRATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; UNDERSTORY;

CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; EUCALYPTUS; FORESTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; ROOTING; SOIL; TROPICS;

EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 80052748794     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.07.011     Document Type: Article

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