Stable isotope characteristics across narrow savanna/woodland ecotones in Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater, Western Australia

Oecologia

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 100-112

  Wooller, Matthew J ^a,c   Johnson, Beverly J ^b   Wilkie, Andrew ^b   Fogel, Marilyn L ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

^c University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

Author keywords

C3; C4; Carbon; Nitrogen; Plants

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHLORIDE; NITRATE; NITROGEN;

C3 PLANT; C4 PLANT; ECOTONE; FRESHWATER SEDIMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAKE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ALGA; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOLOGY; SOIL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGAE; ANGIOSPERMS; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHLORIDES; GEOLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITRATES; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; SOIL; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WORLD;

ACACIA; ACACIA AMPLICEPS; ALGAE; POACEAE;

EID: 26044441882     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0105-5     Document Type: Article

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