Dynamics of the internal soil nitrogen cycles under moder and mull forest floor types on a slope in a Cryptomeria japonica D. Don plantation

Ecological Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-64

  Hirobe, Muneto ^a   Koba, Keisuke ^a   Tokuchi, Naoko ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Forest floor type; Forest slope; Gross nitrogen transformations; Internal soil nitrogen cycle; Microbial carbon availability; Net nitrogen transformations

Indexed keywords

FOREST SOIL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN;

CRYPTOMERIA; CRYPTOMERIA JAPONICA; JAPONICA;

EID: 0037985455     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1703.2003.00532.x     Document Type: Article

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