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Western U.S. montane soil carbon cycling¶

Soil samples are collected from montane and subalpine forests around the U.S. along with descriptive information about that forest.

Some research objectives¶

Related projects¶

• The SNOTEL soil climate project.

Hypotheses¶

Experimental design¶

Design changelog¶

Methods¶

• Growing season soil respiration with the Li-Cor 6400 system.
• Below-snow soil respirationmeasurements made with the inlet/tubing system and exetainers.
• Litterbag mass lossmeasurement of winter and summer decomposition.