caa a22 4500 469037857 CHVBK 20180323132800.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19921201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00142430 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00142430 Tropical soils could dominate the short-term carbon cycle feedbacks to increased global temperatures [Elektronische Daten] [Alan Townsend, Peter Vitousek, Elisabeth Holland] Results of a simple model of the effects of temperature on net ecosystem production call into question the argument that the large stocks of soil carbon and greater projected warming in the boreal and tu ndra regions of the world will lead to rapid efflux of carbon from these biomes to the atmosphere. We show that low rates of carbon turnover in these regions and a relatively greater response of net primary production to changes in temperature may lead to carbon storage over some limited range of warming. In contrast, the high rates of soil respiration found in tropical ecosystems are highly sensitive to small changes in temperature, so that despite the less pronounced warming expected in equatorial regions, tropical soils are likely to release relatively large amounts of carbon to the atmosphere. Results for high-latitude biomes are highly sensitive to parameter values used, while the net efflux of carbon from the tropics appears robust. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Townsend Alan Dept. Biological Sciences, Stanford University, 94305-5020, Stanford, CA, U.S.A. aut Vitousek Peter Dept. Biological Sciences, Stanford University, 94305-5020, Stanford, CA, U.S.A. aut Holland Elisabeth Atmospheric Chemistry Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, 80307-3000, Boulder, CO, U.S.A. aut Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 22/4(1992-12-01), 293-303 0165-0009 22:4<293 1992 22 10584 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00142430 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00142430 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Townsend Alan Dept. Biological Sciences, Stanford University, 94305-5020, Stanford, CA, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vitousek Peter Dept. Biological Sciences, Stanford University, 94305-5020, Stanford, CA, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Holland Elisabeth Atmospheric Chemistry Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, 80307-3000, Boulder, CO, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 22/4(1992-12-01), 293-303 0165-0009 22:4<293 1992 22 10584 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer