Differential responses of ecosystem respiration components to experimental warming in a meadow grassland on the Tibetan Plateau

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 220, Issue , 2016, Pages 21-29

  Chen, Ji ^a,b   Luo, Yiqi ^c,d   Xia, Jianyang ^e   Shi, Zheng ^c   Jiang, Lifen ^c   Niu, Shuli ^f   Zhou, Xuhui ^e   Cao, Junji ^a,g  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^g XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ecosystem respiration; Experimental warming; Heterotrophic respiration; Soil respiration; Tibetan Plateau; Total autotrophic respiration

Indexed keywords

AUTOTROPHY; BIOMASS; BIOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; MEADOW; SOIL RESPIRATION;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84954470026     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2016.01.010     Document Type: Article

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