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A New Method to Determine Belowground Production in Forest Ecosystems

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Responses of Forest Ecosystems to Environmental Changes

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For understanding forest nutrient cycling, a reliable method to estimate belowground (root) production is needed. The methods employed so far are unsatisfactory (6) The aim this study was to utilize recent knowledge on soil microbial maintenance requirement (2) for estimating belowground production in forests. The amount of soil microbial biomass C (Cmic) is usually limited by the microbially available C. Hence, if Cmic and the maintenance coefficient (m) (mg glucose-C mg-1Cmic h-1) are known, it should be possible to calculate the amount of available substrate C.

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  1. Institute for Soil Biology, FAL, Braunschweig, Germany

    H. Insam

  2. South China Inst. of Botany, Academia Sinica, Germany

    Ding Ming Mao, Yi Wei Min & Liao Lan Yu

  3. Dept. of Botany, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China

    Yang Jia Cheng

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  1. European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, France

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  2. Commission of the European Communities, Brussels, Belgium

    P. Mathy

  3. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Grange-over-Sands, UK

    J. N. R. Jeffers

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Insam, H., Mao, D.M., Min, Y.W., Yu, L.L., Cheng, Y.J. (1992). A New Method to Determine Belowground Production in Forest Ecosystems. In: Teller, A., Mathy, P., Jeffers, J.N.R. (eds) Responses of Forest Ecosystems to Environmental Changes. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2866-7_154

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