Plant biomass production and soil nitrogen in mixtures and monocultures of old field Mediterranean annuals

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 65-75

  Gastine, A ^a,b   Roy, J ^b   Leadley, P W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Complementarity; Functional groups; Nitrate; Sampling effect

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASSLAND; OLD FIELD; SOIL NITROGEN; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CENTAUREA; CENTAUREA SOLSTITIALIS; LOLIUM; LOLIUM RIGIDUM; POACEAE; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM;

EID: 0037502956     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1146-609X(03)00044-4     Document Type: Article

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