Climate dependence of heterotrophic soil respiration from a soil-translocation experiment along a 3000 m tropical forest altitudinal gradient

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2009

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ZIMMERMANN, M
Meir, Patrick
Bird, Michael I.
Malhi, Yadvinder
CCAHUANA, A. J . Q.

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

Tropical ecosystems play a key role in the global carbon cycle, but their response to global warming is not well understood. Altitudinal gradients offer the unique possibility of undertaking in situ experimental studies of the influence of alterations in

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Keywords: altitude; belowground biomass; biomass allocation; carbon cycle; global warming; sea level change; soil organic matter; soil respiration; temporal period; translocation; tropical forest; Peru

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European Journal of Soil Science

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2037-12-31