Dominant bryophyte control over high-latitude soil temperature fluctuations predicted by heat transfer traits, field moisture regime and laws of thermal insulation

Functional Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1442-1454

  Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A ^a   van Bodegom, Peter M ^a   Cornelissen, Johannes H C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Freeze thaw regime; Moss; Plant soil (below ground) interactions; Soil temperature amplitude; Subarctic; Thermal conductivity; Thermal diffusivity; Thermal insulation; Tundra; Volumetric heat capacity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; BRYOPHYTE; GROWING SEASON; HEAT CAPACITY; HEAT TRANSFER; INSULATION; MOISTURE CONTENT; NUTRIENT; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PERMAFROST; SOIL TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TUNDRA; VEGETATION;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; SPHAGNUM; SPHAGNUM FUSCUM;

EID: 84887828151     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12127     Document Type: Article

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