Phenology and allocation of belowground plant carbon at local to global scales

Forests play an important role in mitigating climate change by removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere via photosynthesis and storing it in plant tissues and soil organic matter (SOM). Plant roots are a major conduit for transporting recently fixed CO2 belowground, where carbon (C) remains...

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Main Author: Abramoff, Rose Zheng
Language:en_US
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/16357