Tundra soil carbon is vulnerable to rapid microbial decomposition under climate warming

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 595-600

  Xue, Kai ^a,b   Yuan, Mengting M ^b   Shi, Zhou J ^b   Qin, Yujia ^b   Deng, Ye ^b,c   Cheng, Lei ^b,d   Wu, Liyou ^b   He, Zhili ^b   Van Nostrand, Joy D ^b   Bracho, Rosvel ^e   Natali, Susan ^f   Schuur, Edward A G ^e,g   Luo, Chengwei ^h   Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T ^h   Wang, Qiong ⁱ   Cole, James R ⁱ   Tiedje, James M ⁱ   Luo, Yiqi ^b   Zhou, Jizhong ^a,b,j  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^f WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^g NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

ⁱ MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECOMPOSITION; GREENHOUSE GAS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PERMAFROST; RESPIRATION; SOIL CARBON; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TUNDRA SOIL; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84971254230     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2940     Document Type: Article

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