Responses of a tundra system to warming using SCAMPS: A stoichiometrically coupled, acclimating microbeplantsoil model

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 151-170

  Sistla, Seeta A ^a   Rastetter, Edward B ^b   Schimel, Joshua P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic tundra; Biogeochemical cycles; Climate warming; Ecosystem model; Extracellular enzymes; Plantsoilmicrobe feedbacks

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DECOMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING; GLOBAL CHANGE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PLANT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SUMMER; TUNDRA; TURNOVER; WARMING; WINTER;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84893319217     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-2119.1     Document Type: Article

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