When Wet Gets Wetter: Decoupling of Moisture, Redox Biogeochemistry, and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in a Humid Tropical Forest Soil

Ecosystems

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 576-589

  Hall, Steven J ^a   McDowell, William H ^b   Silver, Whendee L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

biogeochemistry model; denitrification; global change; iron reduction; manganese reduction; methane; nitrous oxide; oxygen; precipitation; soil respiration

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST SOIL; GLOBAL CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; IRON; MANGANESE; METHANE; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REDOX CONDITIONS; REDUCTION; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL EMISSION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL RESPIRATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

LUQUILLO EXPERIMENTAL FOREST; PUERTO RICO;

EID: 84877726744     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-012-9631-2     Document Type: Article

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