Microbial mediation of carbon-cycle feedbacks to climate warming

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 106-110

  Zhou, Jizhong ^a,b,c   Xue, Kai ^a   Xie, Jianping ^a,d   Deng, Ye ^a   Wu, Liyou ^a   Cheng, Xiaoli ^a,e   Fei, Shenfeng ^a   Deng, Shiping ^f   He, Zhili ^a   Van Nostrand, Joy D ^a   Luo, Yiqi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^f OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; CARBON CYCLE; CATALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; GROWTH RATE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROORGANISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENCY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL RESPIRATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84863115440     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1331     Document Type: Article

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