Soil respiration variation along an altitudinal gradient in the Italian Alps: Disentangling forest structure and temperature effects

• Aysan Badraghi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aysan Badraghi, Maurizio Ventura, Leonardo Montagnani

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

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• Maurizio Ventura ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aysan Badraghi, Maurizio Ventura, Leonardo Montagnani

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

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• Andrea Polo,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

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• Luigimaria Borruso,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

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• Francesco Giammarchi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

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• Leonardo Montagnani

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aysan Badraghi, Maurizio Ventura, Leonardo Montagnani

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: leonardo.montagnani@unibz.it

  Affiliations Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy, Forest Services, Autonomous Province of Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2957-9071

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