Experimental warming and clipping altered litter carbon and nitrogen dynamics in a tallgrass prairie

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 138, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 206-213

  Cheng, Xiaoli ^a,b   Luo, Yiqi ^a   Su, Bo ^a   Zhou, Xuhui ^a   Niu, Shuli ^a   Sherry, Rebecca ^a   Weng, Ensheng ^a   Zhang, Quanfa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Initial litter quality; Land use practice; Litter C and N dynamics; Litter decomposition; Soil microclimate

Indexed keywords

C3 PLANT; C4 PLANT; CARBON CYCLE; CLIPPING; DECOMPOSITION; FORAGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HARVESTING; IMMOBILIZATION; LAND USE; LITTER; MICROCLIMATE; MINERALIZATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; PRAIRIE; WARMING;

OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955085752     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2010.04.019     Document Type: Article

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