Leaf and fine root carbon stocks and turnover are coupled across Arctic ecosystems

Victoria L. Sloan; Benjamin J. Fletcher; Malcolm C. Press; Mathew Williams; Gareth K. Phoenix

doi:10.1111/gcb.12322

Leaf and fine root carbon stocks and turnover are coupled across Arctic ecosystems

Victoria L. Sloan^*, Benjamin J. Fletcher, Malcolm C. Press, Mathew Williams, Gareth K. Phoenix

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Abstract

Estimates of vegetation carbon pools and their turnover rates are central to understanding and modelling ecosystem responses to climate change and their feedbacks to climate. In the Arctic, a region containing globally important stores of soil carbon, and where the most rapid climate change is expected over the coming century, plant communities have on average sixfold more biomass below ground than above ground, but knowledge of the root carbon pool sizes and turnover rates is limited. Here, we show that across eight plant communities, there is a significant positive relationship between leaf and fine root turnover rates (r(2)=0.68, P

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3668-3676
Number of pages	9
Journal	Global Change Biology
Volume	19
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12322
Publication status	Published - Dec 2013

Keywords

Arctic
biomass
carbon stocks
fine root
leaf area index
root:leaf ratio
turnover
LONG-TERM FERTILIZATION
AREA INDEX
ECONOMICS SPECTRUM
CLIMATE-CHANGE
PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY
VEGETATION TYPES
NORTHERN ALASKA
GLOBAL CHANGE
PLANT-GROWTH
TOOLIK LAKE

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Leaf and fine root carbon stocks and turnover are coupled across Arctic ecosystems

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