Rate of Belowground Carbon Allocation Differs with Successional Habit of Two Afromontane Trees

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Shibistova, Olga ^a,b   Yohannes, Yonas ^a,c   Boy, Jens ^a   Richter, Andreas ^d   Wild, Birgit ^d   Watzka, Margarethe ^d   Guggenberger, Georg ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST   (Russian Federation)

^c Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research   (Ethiopia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE;

AFROMONTANE TREE; ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; ARTICLE; CARBON ALLOCATION; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CARBON FIXATION; COMMUNITY SUCCESSION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROTON MACROSTACHYUS; EFFUSION; FOLIAGE; GYMNOSPERM; LABELING INDEX; NONHUMAN; PHLOEM; PLANT LEAF; PODOCARPUS FALCATUS; SOIL RESPIRATION; SPECIES TRANSLOCATION; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

ANGIOSPERMS; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPES; ETHIOPIA; GYMNOSPERMS; MYCORRHIZAE; PHLOEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

AFROCARPUS FALCATUS; ARBUSCULAR; CROTON MACROSTACHYUS; GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 84866842078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045540     Document Type: Article

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