Soil respiration in tibetan alpine grasslands: Belowground biomass and soil moisture, but not soil temperature, best explain the large-scale patterns

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Geng, Yan ^a,b   Wang, Yonghui ^a   Yang, Kuo ^a   Wang, Shaopeng ^a   Zeng, Hui ^a   Baumann, Frank ^c   Kuehn, Peter ^c   Scholten, Thomas ^c   He, Jin Sheng ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; WATER;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; BIOMASS; BREATHING RATE; CHINA; COLD; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; GROWING SEASON; LOW TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT METABOLISM; PLANT ROOT; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PLANTS; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; TIBET; WATER;

EID: 84859604487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034968     Document Type: Article

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