Forest Soil Respiration under Climate Changing

• Main Author: Mirco Rodeghiero (Ed.) (auth)
• Other Authors: Robert Jandl (Ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: Environmental economics; disturbance; heterotrophic respiration; modeling; soil respiration; autotrophic respiration
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The respiration of forest soils and the major factors controlling its rate are fairly well understood. The process is of utmost significance because its balance with the fixation of CO2 in the biomass defines whether a particular site is a source or sink of atmospheric CO2. Currently, the measuremen...