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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-2975-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-2975-2015
Research article
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21 May 2015
Research article |  | 21 May 2015

Vegetation and elevation influence the timing and magnitude of soil CO2 efflux in a humid, topographically complex watershed

J. W. Atkins, H. E. Epstein, and D. L. Welsch

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We wanted to understand how the coupling of water and carbon cycling is affected by landscape position and vegetation heterogeneity within a humid, topographically complex watershed in the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia. Over 3 years (2010-2012), we found that in low-rainfall years, shrubs had a strong effect on the magnitude of soil carbon fluxes but that in high-rainfall years, fluxes were constrained across the watershed. Highest fluxes occurred at below-average soil moisture.
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