Heathland ecosystems, human impacts and time: A long term heathland trial investigating ecosystem changes that occur after exposure to climate change, elevated N deposition and traditional vegetation management practices

Authors	G.R. Kopittke
Supervisors	K. Kalbitz
Cosupervisors	A. Tietema E.E. van Loon
Award date	03-04-2013
ISBN	9789491407086
Number of pages	169
Organisations	Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED)
Document type	PhD thesis
Note	Research conducted at: Universiteit van Amsterdam
Language	English
Downloads	Thesis Cover Title pages Contents List of abbreviations Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The age of managed heathland communities: Implications for carbon storage? Chapter 3: Soil respiration on an aging managed heathland: Can model selection procedures contribute to our understanding of ecosystem processes? Chapter 4: Fourteen annually repeated droughts suppressed autotrophic soil respiration and resulted in an ecosystem change Chapter 5: Soil acidification occurs under ambient conditions but is retarded by repeated drought: Results of a field-scale climate manipulation experiment Chapter 6: Synthesis References Summary Samenvatting Acknowledgements Appendix 1: Details of the PG measurements Appendix 2: Details of the soil moisture model Appendix 3: Dealing with additional validation methods and error metrics
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