Native temperature regime influences soil response to simulated warming

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 60, Issue , 2013, Pages 202-209

  Whitby, Timothy G ^a   Madritch, Michael D ^a  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Intact soil cores; Microbial extracellular enzyme activity; Soil carbon cycling; Soil microbial respiration

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; CLIMATE WARMING; COLD CLIMATE; DIURNAL TEMPERATURES; EXTRACELLULAR ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS; LIGHT REGIME; LOW TEMPERATURES; RESPIRATION RATE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL CORES; SOIL MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL RESPONSE; SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE REGIMES; WARM CLIMATES;

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING;

SOILS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLOBAL CHANGE; MINERALIZATION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

APPALACHIANS;

EID: 84874722975     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.01.014     Document Type: Article

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