Patterns and driving factors of WUE and NUE in natural forest ecosystems along the North-South Transect of Eastern China

Journal of Geographical Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 651-665

  Sheng, Wenping ^a,b   Ren, Shujie ^a   Yu, Guirui ^a   Fang, Huajun ^a   Jiang, Chunming ^c   Zhang, Mi ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

13C; C N; nitrogen use efficiency (NUE); North South Transect of Eastern China (NSTEC); water use efficiency (WUE)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960324125     PISSN: 1009637X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11442-011-0870-5     Document Type: Article

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