Traits of dominant tree species predict local scale variation in forest aboveground and topsoil carbon stocks

Plant and Soil

Volumn 409, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 435-446

  Lin, Dunmei ^a,b   Anderson Teixeira, Kristina J ^c,d   Lai, Jiangshan ^b   Mi, Xiangcheng ^b   Ren, Haibao ^b   Ma, Keping ^b  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; Carbon stocks; Functional diversity; Functional trait; Mass ratio hypothesis; Niche complementarity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COMPLEMENTARITY; CONSERVATION STATUS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL CARBON; TOPSOIL; TREE; WOOD;

CHINA;

EID: 84978105189     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: 15735036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-016-2976-0     Document Type: Article

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