Legacies of plant litter on carbon and nitrogen dynamics and the role of the soil community

Pedobiologia

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 185-192

  Carrillo, Yolima ^a   Ball, Becky A ^b   Strickland, Michael S ^c   Bradford, Mark A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY WEST   (United States)

^c Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled biogeochemical cycles; Decomposition; Ecological legacies; Home field advantage; Microarthropods; Soil biota

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BIOACTIVITY; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; DECOMPOSITION; LITTER; MICROCOSM; MINERALIZATION; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; SOIL BIOTA; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

EID: 84862018346     PISSN: 00314056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedobi.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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