Progressive nitrogen limitation of ecosystem responses to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide

BioScience

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 731-739

  Luo, Yiqi ^a   Su, Bo ^a   Currie, William S ^b   Dukes, Jeffrey S ^c   Finzi, Adrien ^d   Hartwig, Ueli ^e   Hungate, Bruce ^f   McMurtrie, Ross E ^g   Oren, Ram ^h   Parton, William J ⁱ   Pataki, Diane E ^j   Shaw, M Rebecca ^k   Zak, Donald R ^b   Field, Christopher B ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^d Boston University   (United States)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^h DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Biogeochemical cycles; Carbon sequestration; Climate change; Ecosystem productivity; Nutrient limitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043154067     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0731:PNLOER]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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