Climate fails to predict wood decomposition at regional scales

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 625-630

  Bradford, Mark A ^a   Warren Ii, Robert J ^b   Baldrian, Petr ^c   Crowther, Thomas W ^a   Maynard, Daniel S ^a   Oldfield, Emily E ^a   Wieder, William R ^d   Wood, Stephen A ^e   King, Joshua R ^f  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e Department of Ecology Evolution and Environmental Biology Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECOMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ESTIMATION METHOD; ORGANIC MATTER; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WOOD;

EID: 84903468837     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2251     Document Type: Article

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