Low δ18O values of nitrate produced from nitrification in temperate forest soils

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 8723-8730

  Fang, Yunting ^a,b   Koba, Keisuke ^a   Makabe, Akiko ^a   Zhu, Feifei ^a,c   Fan, Shaoyan ^a   Liu, Xueyan ^a   Yoh, Muneoki ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; ELEVATION GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL WATER; HIGH ELEVATION; INTERMEDIATE PRODUCT; TEMPERATE FORESTS;

FORESTRY; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; SOILS;

DENITRIFICATION;

FERTILIZER; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROGEN; WATER; OXYGEN;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; FERTILIZER; FOREST SOIL; NITRATE; NITRIFICATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; DENITRIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST SOIL; INCUBATION TIME; NITRIFICATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY; TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FOREST; CHEMISTRY; SOIL; TREE;

FORESTRY; METEOROLOGY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; OXIDATION; REMOVAL; SOIL;

NITRATES; NITRIFICATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SOIL; TREES;

EID: 84865461272     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es300510r     Document Type: Article

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