Seasonal patterns of belowground biomass and productivity in mountain grasslands in the Pyrenees

Plant and Soil

Volumn 340, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 315-326

  Garcia Pausas, Jordi ^a   Casals, Pere ^a   Romanyà, Joan ^b   Vallecillo, Sara ^a   Sebastià, Maria Teresa ^a,c  

^a CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Belowground biomass; Grazing exclusion; Mountain grasslands; Relative productivity rates; Root dynamics; Surface and subsurface layers

Indexed keywords

BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; FREEZING; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; MOUNTAIN REGION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; ROOT SYSTEM; SEASONALITY; SOIL CARBON;

PYRENEES;

EID: 79951813011     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-010-0601-1     Document Type: Article

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