Carbon dioxide emitted from live stems of tropical trees is several years old

Tree Physiology

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 743-752

  Muhr, Jan ^a   Angert, Alon ^b   Negrón Juárez, Robinson I ^c   Muñoz, Waldemar Alegria ^d   Kraemer, Guido ^d   Chambers, Jeffrey Q ^e   Trumbore, Susan E ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c Tulane University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA AMAZONÍA PERUANA   (Peru)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

bomb radiocarbon 14C; non structural carbohydrates; storage carbon pools; tree respiration

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION EFFICIENCY; CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON FIXATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; RADIOCARBON DATING; RESPIRATION; ROOT SYSTEM; STEM; TROPICAL REGION;

PERU;

EID: 84882760730     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpt049     Document Type: Article

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