Drying and wetting of Mediterranean soils stimulates decomposition and carbon dioxide emission: the "Birch effect"

Observations on the net carbon exchange of forests in the European Mediterranean region, measured recently by the eddy covariance method, have revived interest in a phenomenon first characterized on agricultural and forest soils in East Africa in the 1950s and 1960s by H. F. Birch and now often refe...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Tree physiology 2007-07, Vol.27 (7), p.929-940
Hauptverfasser:	Jarvis, Paul, Rey, Ana, Petsikos, Charalampos, Wingate, Lisa, Rayment, Mark, Pereira, João, Banza, João, David, Jorge, Miglietta, Franco, Borghetti, Marco, Manca, Giovanni, Valentini, Riccardo
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Carbon Dioxide - chemistry Carbon Dioxide - metabolism Ecosystem Mediterranean Region Models, Biological Seasons Soil Trees - growth & development Trees - metabolism Water - metabolism
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