Labile carbon retention compensates for CO2 released by priming in forest soils

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1943-1954

  Qiao, Na ^a,b   Schaefer, Douglas ^a   Blagodatskaya, Evgenia ^c,d   Zou, Xiaoming ^a,e   Xu, Xingliang ^a,c   Kuzyakov, Yakov ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Addition frequency; Carbon balance; Glucose; Litter decomposition; Priming effect; Root exudates; Soil organic matter stability; Subtropical forest; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

CARBON BALANCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; DECOMPOSITION; FOREST SOIL; GLOBAL WARMING; GLUCOSE; LITTERFALL; RETENTION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPICAL FOREST;

EMBRYOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

CARBON DIOXIDE; GLUCOSE; SOIL;

CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; FOREST; METABOLISM; SOIL; TROPIC CLIMATE;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHINA; FORESTS; GLUCOSE; SOIL; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84899996616     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12458     Document Type: Article

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