A Look at Amazon Basin Seasonal Dynamics with the Biophysical ...

ut soil temperature was not. Absence of a relationship between soil respiration and soiltemperature in moist tropical forests and over the annual temperature cycle in pastures,has important implications for global carbon cycle analyses. Soil respiration rates insome of these analyses are described as a function of either air or soil temperature. Ourstudy suggests that this characterization is not valid in moist tropical forests and pastures.