Climate Warming and Soil Carbon in Tropical Forests: Insights from an Elevation Gradient in the Peruvian Andes

Urgent need for warming experiments in tropical forests

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Nitrogen and phosphorus constrain labile and stable carbon turnover in lowland tropical forest soils

(2015) Andrew T. Nottingham et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial community composition explains soil respiration responses to changing carbon inputs along an Andes-to-Amazon elevation gradient

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Temperature sensitivity of soil respiration rates enhanced by microbial community response

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Belowground biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

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Mycorrhiza-mediated competition between plants and decomposers drives soil carbon storage

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Warming-related increases in soil CO2 efflux are explained by increased below-ground carbon flux

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Community and Ecosystem Responses to Elevational Gradients: Processes, Mechanisms, and Insights for Global Change

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The response of microbial biomass and hydrolytic enzymes to a decade of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium addition in a lowland tropical rain forest

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Sensitivity of tropical carbon to climate change constrained by carbon dioxide variability

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Roots and Associated Fungi Drive Long-Term Carbon Sequestration in Boreal Forest

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Global soil carbon projections are improved by modelling microbial processes

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Tropical forest carbon balance in a warmer world: a critical review spanning microbial- to ecosystem-scale processes

(2012) Tana E. Wood et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Diurnal, seasonal, and altitudinal trends in microclimate across a tropical montane cloud forest

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Intra- and interspecific tree growth across a long altitudinal gradient in the Peruvian Andes

(2012) Joshua M. Rapp et al.   ECOLOGY

Nutrient limitation in rainforests and cloud forests along a 3,000-m elevation gradient in the Peruvian Andes

(2012) Joshua B. Fisher et al.   OECOLOGIA

Interactive influences of climate and parent material on soil microbial community structure in Bornean tropical forest ecosystems

(2011) Rota Wagai et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Temperature and soil organic matter decomposition rates - synthesis of current knowledge and a way forward

(2011) Richard T. Conant et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil warming, carbon-nitrogen interactions, and forest carbon budgets

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A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

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Rapid Range Shifts of Species Associated with High Levels of Climate Warming

(2011) I.-C. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

On the role of ecological adaptation and geographic distribution in the response of trees to climate change

(2011) O. Ghannoum et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Can composition and physical protection of soil organic matter explain soil respiration temperature sensitivity?

(2010) Michael Zimmermann et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Effects of nitrogen additions on above- and belowground carbon dynamics in two tropical forests

(2010) Daniela F. Cusack et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Termite Diversity along an Amazon-Andes Elevation Gradient, Peru

(2010) Olivia F. Palin et al.   BIOTROPICA

Impact of elevated N input on soil N cycling and losses in old-growth lowland and montane forests in Panama

(2010) Marife D. Corre et al.   ECOLOGY

Microbes do not follow the elevational diversity patterns of plants and animals

(2010) Noah Fierer et al.   ECOLOGY

Introduction: Elevation gradients in the tropics: laboratories for ecosystem ecology and global change research

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Net primary productivity allocation and cycling of carbon along a tropical forest elevational transect in the Peruvian Andes

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Elevation effects on the carbon budget of tropical mountain forests (S Ecuador): the role of the belowground compartment

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Upslope migration of Andean trees

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Widespread coupling between the rate and temperature sensitivity of organic matter decay

(2010) Joseph M. Craine et al.   Nature Geoscience

The sensitivity of tropical leaf litter decomposition to temperature: results from a large-scale leaf translocation experiment along an elevation gradient in Peruvian forests

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Temperature sensitivity increases with soil organic carbon recalcitrance along an elevational gradient in the Wuyi Mountains, China

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Fungal growth on a common wood substrate across a tropical elevation gradient: Temperature sensitivity, community composition, and potential for above-ground decomposition

(2010) Courtney L. Meier et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The Future of Tropical Species on a Warmer Planet

(2009) S. JOSEPH WRIGHT et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Decreased mass specific respiration under experimental warming is robust to the microbial biomass method employed

(2009) Mark A. Bradford et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Climate dependence of heterotrophic soil respiration from a soil-translocation experiment along a 3000 m tropical forest altitudinal gradient

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Thermal adaptation of heterotrophic soil respiration in laboratory microcosms

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Altitudinal variation in leaf mass per unit area, leaf tissue density and foliar nitrogen and phosphorus content along an Amazon-Andes gradient in Peru

(2009) Martine J. van de Weg et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

EXPERIMENTAL WARMING SHOWS THAT DECOMPOSITION TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY INCREASES WITH SOIL ORGANIC MATTER RECALCITRANCE

(2008) Richard T. Conant et al.   ECOLOGY

Effects of rising temperatures and [CO2] on the physiology of tropical forest trees

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Global Warming, Elevational Range Shifts, and Lowland Biotic Attrition in the Wet Tropics

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Substrate quality and the temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition

(2008) Iain P. Hartley et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY