The effect of canopy structure on soil respiration in an old-growth beech-oak forest in central Japan

Agriculture & Biology

• soil respiration 100%
• Fagus 84%
• Quercus 74%
• canopy 65%
• Japan 61%
• soil water content 41%
• canopy gaps 37%
• old-growth forests 35%
• fine roots 30%
• net ecosystem production 22%
• biomass 16%
• spatial variation 14%
• temporal variation 14%
• carbon nitrogen ratio 14%
• soil temperature 14%
• soil organic matter 12%
• growing season 10%
• carbon 8%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• soil respiration 91%
• oak 80%
• respiration 72%
• canopy 66%
• canopy gap 20%
• fine root 18%
• effect 18%
• old-growth forest 18%
• soil water 17%
• water content 17%
• net ecosystem production 10%
• biomass 9%
• carbon 8%
• soil temperature 7%
• soil organic matter 7%
• growing season 6%
• temporal variation 6%
• spatial variation 6%
• fold 5%
• nitrogen 4%