Accelerated microbial turnover but constant growth efficiency with warming in soil

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 903-906

  Hagerty, Shannon B ^a   Van Groenigen, Kees Jan ^a   Allison, Steven D ^b   Hungate, Bruce A ^a   Schwartz, Egbert ^a   Koch, George W ^a   Kolka, Randall K ^c   Dijkstra, Paul ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SOIL CARBON; TURNOVER; WARMING;

EID: 84908551092     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2361     Document Type: Article

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