Experimental litterfall manipulation drives large and rapid changes in soil carbon cycling in a wet tropical forest

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2969-2979

  Leff, Jonathan W ^a   Wieder, William R ^b   Taylor, Philip G ^b   Townsend, Alan R ^b   Nemergut, Diana R ^b   Grandy, A Stuart ^c   Cleveland, Cory C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Dissolved organic matter; Microbial biomass; Net primary productivity; Root biomass; Soil biogeochemistry; Soil carbon chemistry; Soil nitrogen; Soil phosphorus

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FLOOR; FOREST SOIL; GLOBAL CHANGE; LITTERFALL; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SOIL CARBON; TROPICAL FOREST;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 84864590383     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02749.x     Document Type: Article

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