Soil respiration in Tibetan alpine grasslands: belowground biomass and soil moisture, but not soil temperature, best explain the large-scale patterns.

The Tibetan Plateau is an essential area to study the potential feedback effects of soils to climate change due to the rapid rise in its air temperature in the past several decades and the large amounts of soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks, particularly in the permafrost. Yet it is one of the most un...

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Main Authors: Yan Geng, Yonghui Wang, Kuo Yang, Shaopeng Wang, Hui Zeng, Frank Baumann, Peter Kuehn, Thomas Scholten, Jin-Sheng He
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3324551?pdf=render