Controls on ecosystem and root respiration across a permafrost and wetland gradient in interior Alaska

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  McConnell, Nicole A ^a   Turetsky, Merritt R ^b   David McGuire, A ^a   Kane, Evan S ^c   Waldrop, Mark P ^d   Harden, Jennifer W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon; permafrost; plant respiration; soil respiration; thaw depth; wetland

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; SOIL MOISTURE; THAWING; WETLANDS;

ECOSYSTEM RESPIRATION; PLANT RESPIRATION; SOIL RESPIRATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THAW DEPTH; VEGETATION COMPOSITION;

PERMAFROST;

ACTIVE LAYER; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FEN; PERMAFROST; PLANT COMMUNITY; REDOX CONDITIONS; RESPIRATION; ROOT SYSTEM; SOIL MOISTURE; THAWING;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891927860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/045029     Document Type: Article

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