Differential priming of soil carbon driven by soil depth and root impacts on carbon availability

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 69, Issue , 2014, Pages 147-156

  De Graaff, Marie Anne ^a   Jastrow, Julie D ^b   Gillette, Shay ^a   Johns, Aislinn ^a   Wullschleger, Stan D ^c  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon 13; Decomposition; Priming; Soil depth; Specific root length; Switchgrass cultivars

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; DECOMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CARBON-13; PRIMING; SOIL DEPTH; SPECIFIC ROOT LENGTH; SWITCHGRASS;

SOILS;

CARBON; CULTIVAR; DECOMPOSITION; INCUBATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ROOT; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL PROFILE;

PANICUM VIRGATUM;

EID: 84888777764     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.10.047     Document Type: Article

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