Temporal variability in plant and soil nitrogen pools in a high-Arctic ecosystem

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2129-2137

  Bardgett, Richard D ^a   van der Wal, Rene ^b   Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg S ^c   Quirk, Helen ^a   Dutton, Stephen ^a,b,c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dry and moist meadows; High Arctic; Moss; Nitrogen cycling; Nitrogen mineralisation; Soil microbial biomass; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

BIOACTIVITY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEMS; NITROGEN; SOILS; WETTING;

DRY AND MOIST MEADOWS; HIGH-ARCTIC; NITROGEN CYCLING; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; GROWING SEASON; MEADOW; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOSS; NITROGEN CYCLE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ALOPECURUS ALPINUS; BRYOPHYTA; DRYAS OCTOPETALA;

EID: 34249304834     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2007.03.016     Document Type: Article

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