TITLE: Root-derived inputs are major contributors to soil carbon in temperate forests
AUTHORS:
Adrienne B. Keller1,2, Edward R. Brzostek3, Matthew E. Craig4, Joshua B. Fisher5, Richard P. Phillips1
1Department of Biology, Indiana University Bloomington; 2Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota Twin Cities;3Department of Biology, West Virginia University;4Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA; 5Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles
Adrienne B. Keller: kellerab@umn.edu; Edward R. Brozstek: erbrzostek@mix.wvu.edu; Matthew E. Craig: craigme@ornl.gov; Joshua B. Fisher: joshbfisher@gmail.com; Richard P. Phillips: rpp6@indiana.edu
AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS:
All authors contributed to planning the study. ABK, EB and MEC conducted the field work. ABK carried out the laboratory analyses and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. All authors provided feedback on the final manuscript draft.
DATA ACCESSIBILITY:
Upon acceptance, data from this manuscript will be archived in Figshare.
SHORT RUNNING TITLE:
Root inputs to forest soil carbon pools
KEYWORDS: belowground carbon allocation, mycorrhizal association, rhizodeposition, root exudation
TYPE OF ARTICLE: Letter
WORD COUNT:
Number of words in abstract: 146
Number of words in the main text: 4871
Number of references: 49
Number of figures: 4
Number of tables: 2
Number of text boxes: 0
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Adrienne B. Keller
kellerab@umn.edu
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