Responses of soil respiration and its components to drought stress

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 99-109

  Wang, Yanfen ^a   Hao, Yanbin ^a   Cui, Xiao Yong ^a   Zhao, Haitao ^c   Xu, Chengyuan ^b   Zhou, Xiaoqi ^b   Xu, Zhihong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Drought stress; Global climate change; Heterotrophic respiration; Mycorrhizal respiration; Root respiration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895077298     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: 16147480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-013-0799-7     Document Type: Article

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