Temporal dynamics in soil carbon and nitrogen resources at a grassland-shrubland ecotone

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 671-683

  Kieft, Thomas L ^a   White, Carleton S ^b   Loftin, Samuel R ^c   Aguilar, Richard ^d   Craig, John A ^b   Skaar, David A ^a,e  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^d SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bouteloua eriopoda and gracilis; Chihuahuan Desert; Desertification; Ecotone; Grass land; Larrea tridentata; Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site; N mineralization; Shrubland; Soil microbes; Soil respiration; Temporal variability

Indexed keywords

DESERTIFICATION; ECOTONE; NITROGEN; SOIL CARBON; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

(SOUTHWEST); UNITED STATES;

BOUTELOUA ERIOPODA; LARREA; LARREA TRIDENTATA; POACEAE; TRIDENTATA;

EID: 0031852785     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[0671:TDISCA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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