Cumulative response of ecosystem carbon and nitrogen stocks to chronic CO2 exposure in a subtropical oak woodland

New Phytologist

Volumn 200, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 753-766

  Hungate, Bruce A ^a   Dijkstra, Paul ^a   Wu, Zhuoting ^a,b   Duval, Benjamin D ^a,c   Day, Frank P ^d   Johnson, Dale W ^e   Megonigal, J Patrick ^f   Brown, Alisha L P ^d   Garland, Jay L ^g  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c U S DAIRY FORAGE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^f SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^g U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon cycling; Elevated CO2; Global change; Long term experiment; Nitrogen cycling; Scrub oak; Soil carbon; Subtropical woodland

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FIRE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT; SOIL CARBON; TRACER; WOODLAND;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON CYCLING; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ELEVATED CO2; ENVIRONMENT; FIRE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LONG-TERM EXPERIMENT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN CYCLING; OAK; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SCRUB OAK; SOIL; SOIL CARBON; SUBTROPICAL WOODLAND; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

CARBON CYCLING; ELEVATED CO2; GLOBAL CHANGE; LONG-TERM EXPERIMENT; NITROGEN CYCLING; SCRUB OAK; SOIL CARBON; SUBTROPICAL WOODLAND;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FIRES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; QUERCUS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84885403551     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12333     Document Type: Article

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