Cycling dynamics of NH4+ and amino acid nitrogen in soils of a deciduous boreal forest ecosystem

Ecosystems

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 775-788

  McFarland, Jack W ^a   Ruess, Roger W ^a   Kielland, Knut ^a   Doyle, Allen P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

13C and 15N; Alaska; Amino acid; Ammonium; Balsam poplar; Floodplain; Glycine; Microbial biomass N; Organic nitrogen uptake

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BOREAL FOREST; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT CYCLING;

UNITED STATES;

POPULUS BALSAMIFERA; POPULUS BEROLINENSIS;

EID: 0036983389     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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