Altered Belowground Carbon Cycling Following Land-Use Change to Perennial Bioenergy Crops

Ecosystems

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 508-520

  Anderson Teixeira, Kristina J ^a,b   Masters, Michael D ^a   Black, Christopher K ^a   Zeri, Marcelo ^a,c   Hussain, Mir Zaman ^a   Bernacchi, Carl J ^a   DeLucia, Evan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

belowground carbon allocation; bioenergy biofuels; carbon cycle; establishment phase; perennial grasses; root allocation; soil organic carbon; soil respiration

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGY; BIOFUEL; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CROP ROTATION; ENERGY CROP; GRASS; HARVESTING; LAND USE CHANGE; PERENNIAL PLANT; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

MISCANTHUS; PANICUM VIRGATUM; POACEAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84876304167     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-012-9628-x     Document Type: Article

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