Water- and Plant-Mediated Responses of Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes to Warming and Nitrogen Addition on the Songnen Grassland in Northeast China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Jiang, Li ^a   Guo, Rui ^b   Zhu, Tingcheng ^a   Niu, Xuedun ^c   Guo, Jixun ^a   Sun, Wei ^a  

^a NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (China)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; WATER;

ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE TRANSPORT; CHINA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GAS EXCHANGE; GRASSLAND; MICROCLIMATE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SPRING; WARMING; WATER AVAILABILITY;

CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CHINA; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; NITROGEN; POACEAE; RAIN; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 84866555934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045205     Document Type: Article

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