Publication Date:
2022-05-25
Description:
Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2009. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Blackwell for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Ecology Letters 12 (2009): E15-E18, doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01332.x.
Description:
Hartley et al. question whether reduction in Rmass, under experimental warming, arises because of
the biomass method. We show the method they treat as independent yields the same result. We
describe why the substrate-depletion hypothesis cannot alone explain observed responses, and
urge caution in the interpretation of the seasonal data.
Description:
This research was supported by the Office of Science (BER), U.S. Department of Energy, the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and U.S. National Science Foundation grants to the Coweeta
LTER program.
Keywords:
Acclimation
;
Adaptation
;
Soil respiration
;
Thermal biology
;
Temperature
;
Carbon cycling
;
Climate change
;
Climate warming
;
Microbial community
;
CO2
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Preprint
Format:
application/pdf
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