Temperature Dependence of Soil Respiration Modulated by Thresholds in Soil Water Availability Across European Shrubland Ecosystems

Ecosystems

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1460-1477

  Lellei Kovács, Eszter ^a   Botta Dukát, Zoltán ^a   de Dato, Giovanbattista ^b,h   Estiarte, Marc ^c   Guidolotti, Gabriele ^b,i   Kopittke, Gillian R ^d   Kovács Láng, Edit ^a   Kröel Dulay, György ^a   Larsen, Klaus Steenberg ^e   Peñuelas, Josep ^c   Smith, Andrew R ^f,g   Sowerby, Alwyn ^f   Tietema, Albert ^d   Schmidt, Inger Kappel ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BOTANY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^c CREAF   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^g BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h Centro di Ricerca Foreste e Legno   (Italy)

ⁱ CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

annual soil respiration; empirical soil respiration models; shrubland; soil moisture threshold; temperature dependence; temperature sensitivity

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SHRUBLAND; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL WATER; THRESHOLD;

EUROPE;

EID: 84978800216     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-016-0016-9     Document Type: Article

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