Variations in soil N cycling and trace gas emissions in wet tropical forests

Oecologia

Volumn 146, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 584-594

  Holtgrieve, Gordon W ^a,b   Jewett, Peter K ^a   Matson, Pamela A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Denitrification; Hawai'i; Nitrous oxide; Precipitation; Soil redox

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; MINERAL; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN; NITROUS OXIDE; RAIN;

GAS EXCHANGE; NITROUS OXIDE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL NUTRIENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAS; HUMIDITY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE; UNITED STATES;

AMMONIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GASES; HAWAII; HUMIDITY; MINERALS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN RADIOISOTOPES; NITROUS OXIDE; RAIN; SOIL; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 29144454471     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0222-1     Document Type: Article

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