Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics in southern African savannas: The effect of vegetation-induced patch-scale heterogeneities and large scale rainfall gradients

Climatic Change

Volumn 94, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 63-76

  Wang, Lixin ^a,b   D'Odorico, Paolo ^a   Manzoni, Stefano ^c   Porporato, Amilcare ^c   MacKo, Stephen ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

^d NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON AND NITROGENS; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; GLOBAL CHANGES; HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPES; NITROGEN MINERALIZATIONS; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITIES; NUTRIENT CYCLING; OPEN CANOPIES; PLANT COMMUNITIES; PROCESS-BASED MODELS; SOIL CARBONS; TREE CANOPIES; WATER AVAILABILITIES;

DYNAMICS; FORESTRY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COEXISTENCE; GLOBAL CHANGE; MINERALIZATION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFALL; SAVANNA; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER AVAILABILITY;

CARBON; DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST CANOPY; FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; GROUND WATER; MODELS; MOISTURE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; PLANTS; SOIL; TREES;

AFRICA; KALAHARI DESERT; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

POACEAE;

EID: 67349139909     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9548-8     Document Type: Article

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