Soil warming, carbon-nitrogen interactions, and forest carbon budgets

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 9508-9512

  Melillo, Jerry M ^a   Butler, Sarah ^a   Johnson, Jennifer ^a,b   Mohan, Jacqueline ^a,c   Steudler, Paul ^a   Lux, Heidi ^a,d   Burrows, Elizabeth ^a,e   Bowles, Francis ^f   Smith, Rose ^a   Scott, Lindsay ^a   Vario, Chelsea ^a,g   Hill, Troy ^a,h   Burton, Andrew ⁱ   Zhouj, Yu Mei ^j   Tang, Jim ^a  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Research Designs   (United States)

^g Dartmouth College   (United States)

^h Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

ⁱ MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

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Author keywords

Climate system feedbacks; Ecological stoichiometry; Forest carbon budget; Forest nitrogen budget; Global climate change

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ARTICLE; CARBON STORAGE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NITROGEN AVAILABILITY; PLANT TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL WARMING; TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FOREST; TREE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959360687     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1018189108     Document Type: Article

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