Soil microbial community composition does not predominantly determine the variance of heterotrophic soil respiration across four subtropical forests

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wei, Hui ^a,b   Xiao, Guoliang ^a,b   Guenet, Bertrand ^c,d   Janssens, Ivan A ^c   Shen, Weijun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; HETEROTROPHY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; TROPIC CLIMATE;

CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; PLANT ROOTS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84923079020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07854     Document Type: Article

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