Feedback of grazing on gross rates of N mineralization and inorganic N partitioning in steppe soils of Inner Mongolia

Plant and Soil

Volumn 340, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 127-139

  Wu, Honghui ^a,b   Dannenmann, Michael ^a,f   Fanselow, Nicole ^c   Wolf, Benjamin ^a   Yao, Zhisheng ^a,d   Wu, Xing ^a,e   Brüggemann, Nicolas ^a   Zheng, Xunhua ^d   Han, Xingguo ^b   Dittert, Klaus ^c   Butterbach Bahl, Klaus ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^e BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Grazing; Intact plant soil system; Microbial biomass; N mineralization; Nitrate; Plant N uptake; Plant microbe competition; Steppe

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; GRAZING; MINERALIZATION; NITRATE; NITROGEN CYCLE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; STEPPE; STOCKING DENSITY; UNGULATE;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

OVIS ARIES; UNGULATA;

EID: 79951810630     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-010-0575-z     Document Type: Article

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