Effects of litter quality and climate change along an elevation gradient on litter mass loss in an alpine meadow ecosystem on the Tibetan plateau

Plant Ecology

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 257-268

  Xu, Guangping ^a,b   Hu, Yigang ^a,b   Wang, Shiping ^a,c   Zhang, Zhenhua ^a,b   Chang, Xiaofeng ^a,b   Duan, Jichuang ^a,b   Luo, Caiyun ^a,b   Chao, Zengguo ^a,b   Su, Ailing ^a,b   Lin, Qiaoyan ^a,b   Li, Yingnian ^a   Du, Mingyuan ^d  

^a NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alpine meadow; Elevation gradient; Litter quality; Mass loss; Soil moisture; Soil temperature

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECOMPOSITION; ELEVATION; GROWING SEASON; LIGNIN; LITTER; MEADOW; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PLATEAU; SHRUB; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 77954243550     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-009-9714-0     Document Type: Article

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