Non-mycorrhizal uptake of amino acids by roots of the alpine sedge Kobresia myosuroides: Implications for the alpine nitrogen cycle

Oecologia

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 488-494

  Raab, Theodore K ^a   Lipson, David A ^a   Monson, Russell K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpine plants; Cyperaccae; Nitrogen cycle; Organic nitrogen; Tundra

Indexed keywords

KOBRESIA MYOSUROIDES; CYPERACEAE;

ALPINE VEGETATION; AMINO ACID; NITROGEN CYCLE; NORTHERN FALSE SEDGE;

EID: 0030301669     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00333725     Document Type: Article

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