Soil Respiration in Tibetan Alpine Grasslands: Belowground Biomass and Soil Moisture, but Not Soil Temperature, Best Explain the Large-Scale Patterns

• Yan Geng,

  Affiliations Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China

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• Yonghui Wang,

  Affiliation Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China

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• Kuo Yang,

  Affiliation Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China

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• Shaopeng Wang,

  Affiliation Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China

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• Hui Zeng,

  Affiliations Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Circular Economy, Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University, Shenzhen, China

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• Frank Baumann,

  Affiliation Department of Geoscience, Physical Geography and Soil Science, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

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• Peter Kuehn,

  Affiliation Department of Geoscience, Physical Geography and Soil Science, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

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• Thomas Scholten,

  Affiliation Department of Geoscience, Physical Geography and Soil Science, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

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• Jin-Sheng He

  * E-mail: jshe@nwipb.cas.cn

  Affiliations Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China

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