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Article: Seasonal variations in soil respiration and temperature sensitivity under three land-use types in hilly areas of the Sichuan Basin.(Report)
- Article from:
- Australian Journal of Soil Research
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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Introduction
As an important component of terrestrial carbon cycling, soil respiration has received considerable attention in recent years because of the release of large quantities of C[O.sub.2] from the soils to the atmosphere (Schlesinger and Andrews 2000). A major focus of global change research is to understand the impacts of local land-use changes on soil respiration (Powers et al. 2004). Many findings indicate that vegetation type is an important determinant of soil respiration rate, and therefore that changes in land cover have the potential to modify the responses of soils to environmental change (Raich and Tufekcioglu 2000). In China and many other ...