Soil metabolic pulses: Water, substrate, and biological regulation

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 959-966

  Darrel Jenerette, G ^a   Chatterjee, Amitava ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Elevation gradient; Precipitation; Respiration

Indexed keywords

WATER;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELEVATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; METABOLISM; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL RESPIRATION; SUBSTRATE; WETTING; WETTING-DRYING CYCLE;

ARTICLE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SOIL; WATER;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861366973     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1527.1     Document Type: Article

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