Fire Accelerates Assimilation and Transfer of Photosynthetic Carbon from Plants to Soil Microbes in a Northern Peatland

Ecosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1245-1257

  Ward, Susan E ^a   Ostle, Nick J ^a   Oakley, Simon ^a   Quirk, Helen ^a   Stott, Andrew ^a   Henrys, Peter A ^a   Scott, W Andrew ^a   Bardgett, Richard D ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

burning; carbon cycle; peatland; photosynthesis; plant functional types; PLFA; respiration; stable isotope pulse labelling

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; BIOMASS BURNING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; FUNGUS; GRAZING; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESPIRATION; SHRUB; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; STABLE ISOTOPE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84870587693     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-012-9581-8     Document Type: Article

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