Boundaries in miniature: Two examples from soil

BioScience

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 739-749

  Belnap, Jayne ^a   Hawkes, Christine V ^b   Firestone, Mary K ^b  

^a Southwest Biological Science Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological soil crusts; Carbon; Nitrogen; Nutrient cycles; Rhizosphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041653275     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0739:BIMTEF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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