Warm and fertile sub-humid conditions enhance litterfall to sustain high soil respiration fluxes in a mediterranean cork oak forest

Forests

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2918-2940

  Zribi, Lobna ^a,b   Mouillot, Florent ^c   Gharbi, Fatma ^a,b   Ourcival, Jean Marc ^c   Hanchi, Belgacem ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Cork oak forest; Mediterranean climate; Modelling; Soil respiration

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRE HAZARDS; MODELS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS;

CORK OAK; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATES; MEDITERRANEAN ECOSYSTEM; RELATIVE WATER CONTENT; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL RESPIRATION FLUXES; SOIL RESPIRATION RATES;

FORESTRY;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FOREST; LITTERFALL; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MODELING; SOIL CARBON; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; WATER CONTENT;

TUNISIA;

QUERCUS SUBER;

EID: 84946576489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f6092918     Document Type: Article

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