Old soil carbon losses increase with ecosystem respiration in experimentally thawed tundra

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 214-218

  Hicks Pries, Caitlin E ^a,b   Schuur, Edward A G ^a,c   Natali, Susan M ^a,d   Crummer, K Grace ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWING SEASON; PERMAFROST; SOIL CARBON; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; THAWING; TUNDRA; WARMING;

EID: 84955567692     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2830     Document Type: Article

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