Soil respiration in a northeastern US temperate forest : a 22-year synthesis

To better understand how forest management, phenology, vegetation type, and actual and simulated climatic change affect seasonal and inter-annual variations in soil respiration (R-s), we analyzed m ...

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Ecosphere

• Publication date

  2013-11-01

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/ES13.00183.1
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