Allometric constraints on, and trade-offs in, belowground carbon allocation and their control of soil respiration across global forest ecosystems

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1674-1684

  Chen, Guangshui ^a,b   Yang, Yusheng ^a   Robinson, David ^b  

^a FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Belowground carbon allocation; Climate change; Forest ecosystems; Global warming; Heterotrophic respiration; Nitrogen deposition; Root respiration; Soil respiration

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NITROGEN; PARTITIONING; SOIL RESPIRATION;

RAIN; SNOW; SOIL;

CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; FOREST; METABOLISM; PLANT ROOT; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CARBON CYCLE; FORESTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANT ROOTS; RAIN; SNOW; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84898488727     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12494     Document Type: Article

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