Soil microbial responses to herbivory in an arctic tundra heath at two levels of nutrient availability

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2736-2744

  Stark, Sari ^a,c   Grellmann, Doris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Arctic; Carbon; Exclosure experiment; Herbivory; Microbial biomass; Microbial respiration; Nitrogen; Norway; Nutrient cycling; Phosphorus; Reindeer; Tundra heath

Indexed keywords

HEATHLAND; HERBIVORY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TUNDRA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RANGIFER TARANDUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0038477021     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[2736:SMRTHI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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