Rate of belowground carbon allocation differs with successional habit of two afromontane trees.

BACKGROUND: Anthropogenic disturbance of old-growth tropical forests increases the abundance of early successional tree species at the cost of late successional ones. Quantifying differences in terms of carbon allocation and the proportion of recently fixed carbon in soil CO(2) efflux is crucial for...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Olga Shibistova, Yonas Yohannes, Jens Boy, Andreas Richter, Birgit Wild, Margarethe Watzka, Georg Guggenberger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3458901?pdf=render