Foliar and soil δ15N values reveal increased nitrogen partitioning among species in diverse grassland communities

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 895-908

  Gubsch, Marlén ^a   Roscher, Christiane ^b,c   Gleixner, Gerd ^b   Habekost, Maike ^b   Lipowsky, Annett ^b,d   Schmid, Bernhard ^d   Schulze, Ernst Detlef ^b   Steinbeiss, Sibylle ^b,e   Buchmann, Nina ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Complementarity; Jena Experiment; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASS; GRASSLAND; HERB; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LEGUME; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; SOIL NITROGEN; SOWING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; GERMANY; LEGUME; LOLIUM; METABOLISM; PLANT LEAF; POACEAE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FABACEAE; GERMANY; LOLIUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PLANT LEAVES; POACEAE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

POACEAE;

EID: 79955731770     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2011.02287.x     Document Type: Article

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