Labile compounds in plant litter reduce the sensitivity of decomposition to warming and altered precipitation

New Phytologist

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 122-133

  Suseela, Vidya ^a,b   Tharayil, Nishanth ^b   Xing, Baoshan ^c   Dukes, Jeffrey S ^a,d,e  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

13C NMR; Climate change; DRIFT; Japanese knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum); Lignin; Litter decomposition; Recalcitrant

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECOMPOSITION; LEAF LITTER; LIGNIN; LITTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PLANT; PRECIPITATION QUALITY; WARMING;

CARBON; LIGNIN; RAIN;

ARTICLE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DRIFT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; JAPANESE KNOTWEED (POLYGONUM CUSPIDATUM); LITTER DECOMPOSITION; PLANT STEM; POLYGONUM; RECALCITRANT; TEMPERATURE;

13C NMR; CLIMATE CHANGE; DRIFT; JAPANESE KNOTWEED (POLYGONUM CUSPIDATUM); LIGNIN; LITTER DECOMPOSITION; RECALCITRANT;

CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; LIGNIN; PLANT STEMS; POLYGONUM; RAIN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84883005514     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12376     Document Type: Article

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