Rainfall limit of the N cycle on Earth

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Ewing, Stephanie A ^a,b   Michalski, Greg ^c   Thiemens, Mark ^d   Quinn, Richard C ^e   Macalady, Jennifer L ^f   Kohl, Steven ^g   Wankel, Scott D ^h,i   Kendall, Carol ^h   Mckay, Christopher P ^e   Amundson, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; ORGANIC CARBON; RAIN; SOILS;

NITRATE; NITROGEN CYCLE; RAINFALL; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

EID: 36749070879     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GB002838     Document Type: Article

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