Plant identity influences decomposition through more than one mechanism

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  McLaren, Jennie R ^a,b   Turkington, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER; FUNGICIDE; CARBON;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FORB; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGICIDE APPLICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAMINOID; GRASS; GRASSLAND; LEAF LITTER; LEAF STRUCTURE; LEGUME; LITTER DECOMPOSITION; MICROENVIRONMENT; MYCORRHIZA; NONHUMAN; PLANT; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMASS; CANADA; CARBON; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FERTILIZERS; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; PLANTS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80051674462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023702     Document Type: Article

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