15N natural abundance in forest and pasture soils of the Brazilian Amazon Basin

Plant and Soil

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 249-258

  Piccolo, Marisa C ^a   Neill, Christopher ^b   Melillo, Jerry M ^b   Cerri, Carlos C ^a   Steudler, Paul A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Nitrogen; Nitrogen fixation; Stable isotopes; Tropical forest; Tropical pasture

Indexed keywords

FOREST SOIL; NITROGEN; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPICAL FOREST; TROPICAL PASTURE;

BRAZIL, AMAZON BASIN;

EID: 0030303353     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00029056     Document Type: Article

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