Soil carbon and nitrogen across a chronosequence of woody plant expansion in North Dakota

Plant and Soil

Volumn 328, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 369-379

  Springsteen, Anna ^a,d   Loya, Wendy ^b   Liebig, Mark ^c   Hendrickson, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b Wilderness Society   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarse particulate organic matter; Grasslands; Microbial biomass

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CHRONOSEQUENCE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; GRASSLAND; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL DEPTH; WOODY PLANT;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77049122285     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-009-0117-8     Document Type: Article

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