The challenge of establishing decomposition functional types to estimate heterotrophic respiration at large scales

Ben P Bond-Lamberty, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Richland, WA, United States, Daniel Epron, University of Lorraine, AgroParisTech, INRAE, UMR SILVA, Nancy, France, Jennifer W W Harden, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, United States, Mark Harmon, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Dr. Forrest M Hoffman, PhD, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Jitendra Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States, Anthony David McGuire, U.S. Geological Survey, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Prof. Rodrigo Vargas, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, United States