Nutrient addition prompts rapid destabilization of organic matter in an arctic tundra ecosystem

Ecosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 16-25

  Nowinski, Nicole S ^a   Trumbore, Susan E ^a   Schuur, Edward A G ^b   MacK, Michelle C ^b   Shaver, Gaius R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dynamics; Decomposition; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Radiocarbon; Tundra

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CARBON CYCLE; DECOMPOSITION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; RADIOCARBON DATING; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TUNDRA; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; TOOLIK LAKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 43149090062     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-007-9104-1     Document Type: Article

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