Partitioning of nitrogen over five growing seasons in tallgrass prairie

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1280-1287

  Dell, Curtis J ^a,b   Williams, Mark A ^a,c   Rice, Charles W ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition for nitrogen; Konza Prairie Research Natural Area; Long Term Ecological Research (LTER); Microbial N demand; N cycling: N immobilization: 15N; Plant microbe interactions; Tallgrass prairie

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN CYCLE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PARTITIONING; PRAIRIE; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SOIL NITROGEN;

KANSAS; KONZA PRAIRIE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 15744382712     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0790     Document Type: Article

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