Plant community structure regulates responses of prairie soil respiration to decadal experimental warming

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3846-3853

  Xu, Xia ^a,b   Shi, Zheng ^b   Li, Dejun ^b,c   Zhou, Xuhui ^b,d   Sherry, Rebecca A ^b,e   Luo, Yiqi ^b  

^a NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem production; Plant community composition; Soil respiration; Tallgrass prairie; Warming

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; ORGANIC MATTER; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRAIRIE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

SOIL;

BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; GRASSLAND; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; OKLAHOMA; SOIL;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; GRASSLAND; OKLAHOMA; SOIL;

EID: 84941023427     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12940     Document Type: Article

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