Major changes in forest carbon and nitrogen cycling caused by declining sulphur deposition

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3115-3129

  Oulehle, Filip ^a,b   Evans, Christopher D ^a   Hofmeister, Jenyk ^c   Krejci, Radovan ^d   Tahovska, Karolina ^e   Persson, Tryggve ^f   Cudlin, Pavel ^g   Hruska, Jakub ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

^c AgnosLaboratory for Ecological Analysis and Risk Assessment   (Czech Republic)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^f SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^g INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Acidification; Carbon; Deposition; DOC; Forest floor; Leaching; Nitrogen; Nitrogen saturation; Soil; Sulphur

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; DECOMPOSITION; DEPOSITION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FOREST; LEACHING; NITROGEN CYCLE; SEQUESTRATION (CHEMISTRY); SULFUR;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

PICEA;

EID: 80052479973     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02468.x     Document Type: Article

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