Articles | Volume 14, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-99-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-99-2017
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10 Jan 2017
Research article |  | 10 Jan 2017

Soil CO2 efflux from two mountain forests in the eastern Himalayas, Bhutan: components and controls

Norbu Wangdi, Mathias Mayer, Mani Prasad Nirola, Norbu Zangmo, Karma Orong, Iftekhar Uddin Ahmed, Andras Darabant, Robert Jandl, Georg Gratzer, and Andreas Schindlbacher

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Soil Respiration Rate and Climatic Parameters from Mixed and Broad-leaved forest sites from Bhutan, Eastern Himalayas for 2015 Norbu Wangdi, Mathias Mayer, Mani Prasad Nirola, Norbu Zangmo, Karma Orong, Iftekhar Uddin Ahmed, Andras Darabant, Robert Jandl, Georg Gratzer, Andreas Schindlbacher https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4239122

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Carbon cycling in Himalayan mountain forest ecosystems is not well studied. We studied soil respiration and its autotrophic and heterotrophic components as well as the effects of environmental drivers in mixed and broadleaf forest ecosystems in the Bhutan Himalayas for the first time. Soil respiration rates were similar in the two forest ecosystems. A simple temperature-driven model was able to explain more than 90 % of the temporal variation in soil respiration.
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