Plants and biological soil crusts modulate the dominance of N forms in a semi-arid grassland

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 376-378

  Delgado Baquerizo, Manuel ^a   Castillo Monroy, Andrea P ^b   Maestre, Fernando T ^b   Gallardo, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b Escuela Superior de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnologia   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARE SOILS; BIOLOGICAL SOIL CRUSTS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; LOCAL GRADIENTS; LOCAL SCALE; MICROSITES; N AVAILABILITY; N CYCLING; SEMI-ARID ECOSYSTEMS; SEMI-ARID GRASSLANDS; SOIL RESOURCES; SOIL SAMPLE; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; DISSOLUTION; ECOSYSTEMS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; SOILS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

BARE SOIL; DOMINANCE; GRASSLAND; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; NITROGEN CYCLE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL CRUST; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL NITROGEN;

RETAMA; RETAMA SPHAEROCARPA; STIPA TENACISSIMA;

EID: 71849107685     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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