Weaker soil carbon-climate feedbacks resulting from microbial and abiotic interactions

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 56-60

  Tang, Jinyun ^a   Riley, William J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SOIL CARBON; SUBSTRATE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84918504059     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2438     Document Type: Article

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