Microtopographic variation in soil respiration and its controlling factors vary with plant phenophases in a desert-shrub ecosystem

Biogeosciences

Volumn 12, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 5705-5714

  Wang, B ^a,b   Zha, T S ^a   Jia, X ^a,b   Gong, J N ^b   Wu, B ^a   Bourque, C P A ^c   Zhang, Y ^a   Qin, S G ^a   Chen, G P ^d   Peltola, H ^b  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^d Institute of Forestry Sciences Bailongjiang Forestry Management Bureau of Gansu Province   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DESERT; DUNE; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; PHENOLOGY; SHRUB; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL RESPIRATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

CHINA;

ARTEMISIA ORDOSICA;

EID: 84943811838     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-12-5705-2015     Document Type: Article

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