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Title: Soil type interacts with soil respiration in prairie exposed to a gradient CO2

Author
item PROCTER, ANDREW - DUKE UNIVERSITY
item KELLEY, ALEXIA - DUKE UNIVERSITY
item Fay, Philip
item Jin, Virginia
item Polley, Herbert
item JACKSON, ROBERT - DUKE UNIVERSITY

Submitted to: Ecological Society of America Abstracts
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 7/21/2008
Publication Date: 9/7/2008
Citation: Procter, A., Kelley, A., Fay, P.A., Jin, V.L., Polley, H.W., Jackson, R.B. 2008. Soil type interacts with soil respiration in prairie exposed to a gradient CO2. In: Proceedings of the Ecological Society of America, August 3-8, 2008, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 2008 CDROM.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Changes in soil respiration due to rising atmospheric CO2 have large implications for land-atmosphere carbon balance and consequently the greenhouse effect. Here we report results from prairie exposed to a gradient of CO2 spanning from preindustrial (250ppm) levels to levels expected mid-century (500ppm). The experiment consists of an array of prairie plots housed in two plastic-covered tunnels. Three soil types are represented throughout the CO2 gradient: Austin (mollisol), Bastrop (vertisol), and Houston (alfisol). The experiment has completed its second year of CO2 treatment.