Substrate age and tree islands influence carbon and nitrogen dynamics across a retrogressive semiarid chronosequence

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Selmants, Paul C ^a   Hart, Stephen C ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; GAS DYNAMICS; ISOTOPES; NITROGEN; SOILS; SUBSTRATES;

CARBON CYCLE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; NITROGEN CYCLE; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

JUNIPERUS; TILLANDSIA LINEATISPICA;

EID: 45449118939     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GB003062     Document Type: Article

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