On the nitrogen fixation by biological soil crusts in the Gurbantunggut Desert northern Xinjiang of China

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3785-3793

  Wu, Nan ^a,b   Zhang, Yuan Ming ^a   Wang, Hong Ling ^a,b   Zhang, Jing ^a,b   Chen, Rong Yi ^a,b   Nie, Hua Li ^a,b  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Acetylene reduction assays (ARA); Biological soil crusts; Gurbantunggut Desert; Nitrogen fixation

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRYOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; FUNGI; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; PROKARYOTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 49249099791     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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