Nitrogen and Climate Change

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5650, 2003, Pages 1512-1513

  Hungate, Bruce A ^a   Dukes, Jeffrey S ^b   Shaw, M Rebecca ^b   Luo, Yiqi ^c   Field, Christopher B ^b  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; FOSSIL FUEL; NITROGEN; CARBON;

CLIMATE CHANGE; NITROGEN;

BIOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; EXHAUST GAS; GLOBAL CHANGE; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MODEL; NITROGEN CONCENTRATION; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; NITROGEN DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIMULATION; SOIL; TREE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; METABOLISM; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANTS; SOIL; TREES;

EID: 0344827224     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1091390     Document Type: Review

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