Climate-sensitive ecosystem carbon dynamics along the soil chronosequence of the Damma glacier forefield, Switzerland

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1941-1955

  Smittenberg, Rienk H ^a,c   Gierga, Merle ^a   Göransson, Hans ^b,d   Christl, Iso ^b   Farinotti, Daniel ^b   Bernasconi, Stefano M ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Chronosequence; Climate sensitivity; Effective temperature sum; Glacier forefield; Net ecosystem carbon balance

Indexed keywords

CARBON BALANCE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIER ADVANCE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MORAINE; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; STABLE ISOTOPE;

DAMMA GLACIER; SWITZERLAND; URI;

EID: 84860664745     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02654.x     Document Type: Article

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