Natural 15N abundance of plants and soil N in a temperate coniferous forest

Ecosystems

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 457-469

  Koba, Keisuke ^a,b   Hirobe, Muneto ^a,c   Koyama, Lina ^a,d   Kohzu, Ayato ^a   Tokuchi, Naoko ^a   Nadelhoffer, Knute John ^b,e   Wada, Eitaro ^a,f   Takeda, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^d KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Foliar NO3 ; Modeling; Nitrate reductase activity; Nitrogen availability; Nitrogen dynamics; Nitrogen isotope ratio

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; SOIL NITROGEN;

JAPAN;

EID: 0141457232     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-002-0132-6     Document Type: Article

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