Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics along a latitudinal transect in Western Siberia, Russia

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 239-252

  Meyer, H ^a   Kaiser, C ^a   Biasi, C ^a   Hammerle R ^a   Rusalimova, O ^b   Lashchinsky, N ^c   Baranyi, C ^a   Daims, H ^a   Barsukov, P ^b   Richter, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE AND AGROCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Gross N mineralization; Microbial respiration; Nitrogen cycling; Transect study

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CARBON CYCLE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITROGEN CYCLE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL NITROGEN; STEPPE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TUNDRA;

EURASIA; SIBERIA;

EID: 33750213496     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: 1573515X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-006-9039-1     Document Type: Article

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