Nitrogen deposition and forest nitrogen cycling along an urban-rural transect in southern China

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 872-885

  Fang, Yunting ^a,b   Yoh, Muneoki ^b   Koba, Keisuke ^b   Zhu, Weixing ^c   Takebayashi, Yu ^b   Xiao, Yihua ^d   Lei, Chunyi ^e   Mo, Jiangming ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Lu, Xiankai ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^e Heishiding Nature Reserve of Guangdong Province   (China)

Author keywords

Nitrogen deposition; Nitrogen isotope; Nitrogen saturation; Soil nitrogen availability; Tropical and subtropical forests

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; DEPOSITION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FRACTIONATION; LEACHING; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RURAL AREA; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; TROPICAL FOREST; URBAN AREA;

CHINA;

EID: 78650787156     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02283.x     Document Type: Article

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