Do grassland plant communities profit from N partitioning by soil depth?

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2386-2396

  Von Felten, Stefanie ^a,b,c,d   Niklaus, Pascal A ^a,b   Scherer Lorenzen, Michael ^a,e   Hector, Andrew ^b   Buchmann, Nina ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

15N; Biodiversity ecosystem functioning; Niche; Nitrogen; Proportional similarity; Resource partitioning; Rooting depth; Species richness; Temperate grassland

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GRASS; GRASSLAND; NICHE PARTITIONING; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PLANT COMMUNITY; ROOTING; SOIL DEPTH; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

POACEAE;

EID: 84864530478     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1439.1     Document Type: Article

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