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Temperature-associated increases in the global soil respiration record [1]

Soil respiration (RS) is the flux of microbial- and plant-respired carbon dioxide from the soil surface to the atmosphere, and constitutes the second-largest terrestrial carbon flux. It has been suggested that RS should change with climate, but this has been difficult to confirm observationally.

Publication Date: 
25/03/2010
Ben Bond-Lamberty [2], Allison Thomson [3]
Nature [4]
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Soil Resources [5], Carbon Dioxide [6], Climate Change [7], Climate Science [8], Rainfall [9]
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