A warmer climate reduces the bioreactivity of isolated boreal forest soil horizons without increasing the temperature sensitivity of respiratory CO2 loss

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 84, Issue , 2015, Pages 177-188

  Laganière, JérÔme ^a,b   Podrebarac, Frances ^a   Billings, Sharon A ^c   Edwards, Kate A ^b   Ziegler, Susan E ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Boreal forest ecosystems; Carbon quality temperature hypothesis; Climate transect; Laboratory incubation; Temperature sensitivity of decomposition

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LAKES; MINERALOGY; MINERALS;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; BOREAL FOREST ECOSYSTEMS; CARBON QUALITIES; CLIMATE TRANSECT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; TEMPERATURE REGIMES; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

SOILS;

BOREAL FOREST; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN ACTIVITY; ISOLATED POPULATION; LABORATORY METHOD; MINERALIZATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROFILE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CARBON; CLIMATES; DECAY; LABORATORIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84928321894     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.02.025     Document Type: Article

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