1. Preface

   • B. E. Law

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 1

2. Interpreting, measuring, and modeling soil respiration

   • Michael G. Ryan
   • Beverly E. Law

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 27

3. An analysis of soil respiration across northern hemisphere temperate ecosystems

   • K. A. Hibbard
   • B. E. Law
   • J. Sulzman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 70

4. Modeling soil CO₂ emissions from ecosystems

   • S.J. Del Grosso
   • W.J. Parton
   • D.S. Ojima

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 91

5. Seasonal patterns in soil surface CO₂ flux under snow cover in 50 and 300 year old subalpine forests

   • Robert M. Hubbard
   • Michael G. Ryan
   • Charles C. Rhoades

   OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 107

6. Forest soil respiration across three climatically distinct chronosequences in Oregon

   • J.L. Campbell
   • B.E. Law

   OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 125

7. Soil CO₂ efflux in loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) plantations on the Virginia Piedmont and South Carolina Coastal Plain over a rotation-length chronosequence

   • Christopher M. Gough
   • John R. Seiler
   • Christopher A. Maier

   OriginalPaper Pages: 127 - 147

8. Annual soil respiration in broadleaf forests of northern Wisconsin: influence of moisture and site biological, chemical, and physical characteristics

   • Jonathan G. Martin
   • Paul V. Bolstad

   OriginalPaper Pages: 149 - 182

9. Spatial–temporal variation in soil respiration in an oak–grass savanna ecosystem in California and its partitioning into autotrophic and heterotrophic components

   • Jianwu Tang
   • Dennis D. Baldocchi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 183 - 207

10. Calibration and validation of an empirical approach to model soil CO₂ efflux in a deciduous forest

    • J. Curiel Yuste
    • I.A. Janssens
    • R. Ceulemans

    OriginalPaper Pages: 209 - 230

11. Contribution of aboveground litter, belowground litter, and rhizosphere respiration to total soil CO₂ efflux in an old growth coniferous forest

    • Elizabeth W. Sulzman
    • Justin B. Brant
    • Kate Lajtha

    OriginalPaper Pages: 231 - 256

12. Ecosystem respiration responses to experimental manipulations of winter and summer precipitation in a Mixedgrass Prairie, WY, USA

    • R.A. Chimner
    • J.M. Welker

    OriginalPaper Pages: 257 - 270

13. Coupling of canopy gas exchange with root and rhizosphere respiration in a semi-arid forest

    • J. Irvine
    • B. E. Law
    • M. R. Kurpius

    OriginalPaper Pages: 271 - 282

14. Soil properties differently influence estimates of soil CO₂ efflux from three chamber-based measurement systems

    • John R. Butnor
    • Kurt H. Johnsen
    • Chris A. Maier

    OriginalPaper Pages: 283 - 301