Seasonally dependent impacts of grazing on soil nitrogen mineralization and linkages to ecosystem functioning in Inner Mongolia grassland

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1943-1954

  Shan, Yumei ^a,b   Chen, Dima ^a   Guan, Xuanxuan ^a   Zheng, Shuxia ^a   Chen, Haijun ^b   Wang, Mingjiu ^b   Bai, Yongfei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b INNER MONGOLIA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biomass N content; Grazing intensity; Net N mineralization; Nitrogen use efficiency; Season; Soil inorganic N pools; Soil temperature and moisture; Typical steppe

Indexed keywords

GRAZING INTENSITY; N CONTENT; NET N MINERALIZATION; NITROGEN USE EFFICIENCY; SEASON; SOIL TEMPERATURE AND MOISTURE; TYPICAL STEPPE;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LAKES; NITROGEN; PRODUCTIVITY; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE; WOOL;

MINERALOGY;

BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GRASSLAND; GRAZING PRESSURE; GROWING SEASON; INORGANIC NITROGEN; MINERALIZATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENCY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL TEMPERATURE; STEPPE;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 80051470926     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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