Rates of Litter Decomposition and Soil Respiration in Relation to Soil Temperature and Water in Different-Aged Pinus massoniana Forests in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China

• Wenfa Xiao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wenfa Xiao, Xiaogai Ge

  * E-mail: xiaowenf@caf.ac.cn (WX); gexiaogai2006@163.com (XG)

  Affiliation State Forestry Administration Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment, Research Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, PR China

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• Xiaogai Ge ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wenfa Xiao, Xiaogai Ge

  * E-mail: xiaowenf@caf.ac.cn (WX); gexiaogai2006@163.com (XG)

  Affiliations State Forestry Administration Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment, Research Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, PR China, Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, Zhejiang, PR China

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• Lixiong Zeng,

  Affiliation State Forestry Administration Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment, Research Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, PR China

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• Zhilin Huang,

  Affiliation State Forestry Administration Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment, Research Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, PR China

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• Jingpin Lei,

  Affiliation State Forestry Administration Key Laboratory of Forest Silviculture, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, PR China

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• Benzhi Zhou,

  Affiliation Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, Zhejiang, PR China

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• Maihe Li

  Affiliations Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, PR China

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