"Modeled and measured carbon cycling in Mojave Desert soils: toward present and projected greenhouse gas budgets for arid regions

Greg Maurer1, Ronald Amundson2, Laura Nielsen Lammers3, Jennifer Mills1 and Erik Oerter4, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States