Higher temperature sensitivity for stable than for labile soil organic carbon - Evidence from incubations of long-term bare fallow soils

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 633-640

  Lefèvre, Romain ^a   Barré, Pierre ^a   Moyano, Fernando E ^a   Christensen, Bent T ^b   Bardoux, Gérard ^a   Eglin, Thomas ^c   Girardin, Cyril ^a   Houot, Sabine ^d   Kätterer, Thomas ^e   van Oort, Folkert ^f   Chenu, Claire ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c ADEME   (France)

^d UMR 1402 ECOSYS   (France)

^e SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^f INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

Activation energy; Long term bare fallow experiments; Soil carbon dynamic; Stable soil carbon; Temperature sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CARBON DIOXIDE; FALLOW; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TEMPERATURE;

CARBON;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DENMARK; FRANCE; HEAT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL; SWEDEN;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; DENMARK; FRANCE; HOT TEMPERATURE; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SWEDEN;

EID: 84891659452     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12402     Document Type: Article

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