Vegetation cover regulates the quantity, quality and temporal dynamics of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen in Antarctic soils

Polar Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 999-1008

  Roberts, Paula ^a   Newsham, Kevin K ^b   Bardgett, Richard D ^c   Farrar, John F ^a   Jones, David L ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Climate change; Dissolved organic matter; Polar regions; Population expansion; Signy Island

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; GROWING SEASON; NUTRIENT CYCLING; POLAR REGION; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL TYPE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION COVER;

ANTARCTICA; SIGNY ISLAND; SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS;

BRYOPHYTA; COLOBANTHUS QUITENSIS; DESCHAMPSIA ANTARCTICA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 70349436149     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-009-0599-0     Document Type: Article

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