Separating autotrophic and heterotrophic components of soil respiration: Lessons learned from trenching and related root-exclusion experiments

Soil Carbon Dynamics: An Integrated Methodology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 157-168

  Epron, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

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EID: 84928757870     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511711794.009     Document Type: Chapter

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