Inorganic soil nitrogen under grassland plant communities of different species composition and diversity

Oikos

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 271-282

  Palmborg, Cecilia ^a   Scherer Lorenzen, Michael ^c,d   Jumpponen, Ari ^a,b   Carlsson, Georg ^a   Huss Danell, Kerstin ^a   Högberg, Peter ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GRASSLAND; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL NITROGEN;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; WORLD;

EID: 20644450353     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.13673.x     Document Type: Article

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