Is the C:N:P stoichiometry in soil and soil microbial biomass related to the landscape and land use in southern subtropical China?

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Li, Yong ^a   Wu, Jinshui ^a   Liu, Shoulong ^a   Shen, Jianlin ^a   Huang, Daoyou ^a   Su, Yirong ^a   Wei, Wenxue ^a   Syers, J Keith ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NARESUAN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; ATOMIC CARBON; CLEVELAND; DATA SETS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; N:P RATIO; PADDY FIELDS; SOIL ENVIRONMENT; SOIL MICROBES; SOIL MICROBIAL BIOMASS; SOIL ORGANIC C; SOIL SAMPLE; SUBTROPICAL CHINA; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

ATOMS; BACTERIA; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEMS; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; PHOSPHORUS; STOICHIOMETRY; TROPICS;

SOILS;

BIOMASS; CARBON; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; KARST; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NITROGEN; PADDY FIELD; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL MICROORGANISM; STOCHASTICITY;

CHINA;

EID: 84867542787     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GB004399     Document Type: Article

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