Warming-enhanced preferential microbial mineralization of humified boreal forest soil organic matter: Interpretation of soil profiles along a climate transect using laboratory incubations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Li, Jianwei ^a   Ziegler, Susan ^b   Lane, Chad S ^b,c   Billings, Sharon A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOREST SOIL; HUMIDITY; LABORATORY METHOD; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINERALIZATION; ORGANIC SOIL; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROFILE; WARMING;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR;

EID: 84860268953     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JG001769     Document Type: Article

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