Variations in soil carbon sequestration and their determinants along a precipitation gradient in seasonally dry tropical forest ecosystems

Global Change Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1942-1956

  Campo, Julio ^a   Merino, Agustín ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Charcoal; Drought; Episodic events; Organic matter composition and thermal stability; Plant climate soil interactions; Yucatan Peninsula

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHARCOAL; DROUGHT; EPISODIC EVENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TROPICAL FOREST;

YUCATAN PENINSULA;

CARBON; RAIN; SOIL;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; FOREST; MEXICO; SEASON; SOIL; TROPIC CLIMATE;

CARBON; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; FORESTS; MEXICO; RAIN; SEASONS; SOIL; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84959419596     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13244     Document Type: Article

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