Biotic carbon feedbacks in a materially closed soil-vegetation-atmosphere system

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 281-284

  Milcu, Alexandru ^a   Lukac, Martin ^a,b   Subke, Jens Arne ^c   Manning, Pete ^a,d   Heinemeyer, Andreas ^e   Wildman, Dennis ^a   Anderson, Robert ^a   Ineson, Phil ^e  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOTROPHY; BIOTIC FACTOR; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE MODELING; HETEROTROPHY; MODEL VALIDATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SOIL BIOTA; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 84859375628     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1448     Document Type: Article

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