N14C: A plant-soil nitrogen and carbon cycling model to simulate terrestrial ecosystem responses to atmospheric nitrogen deposition

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 247, Issue , 2012, Pages 11-26

  Tipping, E ^a   Rowe, E C ^a   Evans, C D ^a   Mills, R T E ^a,b,c   Emmett, B A ^a   Chaplow, J S ^a   Hall, J R ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atmospheric deposition; Carbon; Leaching; Nitrogen; NPP; Radiocarbon; Soil; Turnover

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN DEPOSITION; BLIND PREDICTIONS; BROADLEAVED; C AND N POOLS; CARBON CYCLING; CONIFEROUS TREES; DECOMPOSITION REACTION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FIELD DATA; FIRST-ORDER; GENERAL INFORMATION; GROWING SEASON LENGTHS; IMMOBILISATION; INORGANIC NITROGEN; LEACHING RATES; N DEPOSITION; N-FIXATION; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NPP; PLANT FUNCTIONAL TYPE; PLANT UPTAKE; RADIOCARBON; SHRUB SITES; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; SOIL POOLS; SPECIFIC SITES; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; TIME STEP; TURNOVER; TURNOVER RATE; VEGETATION TYPE;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON; DENITRIFICATION; DEPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LAKES; LEACHING; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; NITROGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PARAMETERIZATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; SORPTION;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; DECOMPOSITION; DENITRIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; HERB; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IMMOBILIZATION; LEACHING; LITTER; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PARAMETERIZATION; SHRUB; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SORPTION; TURNOVER;

CARBON; DEPOSITION; GEOCHEMISTRY; LAKES; LEACHING; METEOROLOGY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; PARAMETERS; SOIL; SORPTION;

NORTHERN EUROPE;

CONIFERALES; CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 84866277721     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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