Carbon fluxes, nitrogen cycling, and soil microbial communities in adjacent urban, native and agricultural ecosystems

Global Change Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 575-587

  Kaye, Jason P ^a   McCulley, R L ^b   Burke, I C ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorado; Land use change; Primary productivity; Soil respiration; Urban ecosystems; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GLOBAL CHANGE; NITROGEN CYCLE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SOIL MICROORGANISM; URBANIZATION;

COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 17644412345     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.00921.x     Document Type: Article

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