Effects of N and water supply on water use-efficiency of a semiarid grassland in Inner Mongolia

Plant and Soil

Volumn 328, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 495-505

  Brueck, Holger ^a,d   Erdle, Klaus ^a,e   Gao, Yingzhi ^a,c   Giese, Marcus ^a,d   Zhao, Ying ^a   Peth, Stephan ^a   Lin, Shan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bare soil evaporation; Carbon isotope discrimination; Rain use efficiency; Transpiration efficiency

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GRASSLAND; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LEAF AREA INDEX; NITROGEN CYCLE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PARAMETERIZATION; PERCOLATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEMIARID REGION; TRANSPIRATION; WATER USE EFFICIENCY; WET SEASON;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 77049125484     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-009-0128-5     Document Type: Article

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