Nitrogen cycling in the soil-plant system along a precipitation gradient in the Kalahari sands

Global Change Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 359-373

  Aranibar, Julieta N ^a   Otter, Luanne ^b   Macko, Stephen A ^a   Feral, Chris J W ^a   Epstein, Howard E ^a   Dowty, Peter R ^a   Eckardt, Frank ^c   Shugart, Herman H ^a   Swap, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

Author keywords

N isotopes; N2 fixation; NO emissions; Plants; Soils; Wet and dry years

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; NITROGEN CYCLE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

AFRICA; KALAHARI DESERT; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

FABACEAE; MIMOSOIDEAE; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 1842683815     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2003.00698.x     Document Type: Article

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