Response of soil respiration to soil temperature and moisture in a 50-year-old oriental arborvitae plantation in China.

China possesses large areas of plantation forests which take up great quantities of carbon. However, studies on soil respiration in these plantation forests are rather scarce and their soil carbon flux remains an uncertainty. In this study, we used an automatic chamber system to measure soil surface...

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Main Authors: Xinxiao Yu, Tianshan Zha, Zhuo Pang, Bin Wu, Xiaoping Wang, Guopeng Chen, Chunping Li, Jixin Cao, Guodong Jia, Xizhi Li, Hailong Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3232204?pdf=render