Manipulating the quantity, quality, and manner of C addition to reduce soil inorganic N and increase C4:C3 grass biomass

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 688-695

  Bleier, Jonathan S ^a   Jackson, Randall D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Managed grassland; Sawdust; Species coexistence; Sugar

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; INORGANIC NITROGEN; MINERALIZATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

BROMUS; BROMUS INERMIS;

EID: 37249059788     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2007.00281.x     Document Type: Article

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