Climate implications on forest above- and belowground carbon allocation patterns along a tropical elevation gradient on Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania).

Natalia Sierra Cornejo, Christoph Leuschner, Joscha N Becker, Andreas Hemp, David Schellenberger Costa, Dietrich Hertel

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Article in Oecologia, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Effects of land-use change and disturbance on the fine root biomass, dynamics, morphology, and related C and N fluxes to the soil of forest ecosystems at different elevations at Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania).Oecologia · 2023
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6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Natalia Sierra CornejoDepartment of Plant Ecology and Ecosystems Research, Albrecht Von Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, Georg August University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany. nsierra@gwdg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0851-3292

Christoph LeuschnerDepartment of Plant Ecology and Ecosystems Research, Albrecht Von Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, Georg August University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany.

Joscha N BeckerInstitute of Soil Science, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

Andreas HempDepartment of Plant Physiology, Bayreuth University, Bayreuth, Germany.

David Schellenberger CostaInstitute for Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany.

Dietrich HertelDepartment of Plant Ecology and Ecosystems Research, Albrecht Von Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, Georg August University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany.

University of Göttingen · DEFriedrich Schiller University Jena · DEUniversität Hamburg · DEUniversity of Bayreuth · DE

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Deutsche Forschung Gesellschaft (DFG) FOR 1246

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tropical forests represent the largest store of terrestrial biomass carbon (C) on earth and contribute over-proportionally to global terrestrial net primary productivity (NPP). How climate change is affecting NPP and C allocation to tree components in forests is not well understood. This is true for tropical forests, but particularly for African tropical forests. Studying forest ecosystems along elevation and related temperature and moisture gradients is one possible approach to address this question. However, the inclusion of belowground productivity data in such studies is scarce. On Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), we studied aboveground (wood increment, litter fall) and belowground (fine and coarse root) NPP along three elevation transects (c. 1800-3900 m a.s.l.) across four tropical montane forest types to derive C allocation to the major tree components. Total NPP declined continuously with elevation from 8.5 to 2.8 Mg C ha

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CarbonEcosystemBiomassCarbon CycleForestsSoilTanzaniaTreesTropical ClimateCarbonSoilAfricaCarbon cycleFine rootsNet primary productionTropical montane forest

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PMID33630169

DOI10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.06.008

PMCPMC7940314

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