Nitrogen cycling and water pulses in semiarid grasslands: Are microbial and plant processes temporally asynchronous?

Oecologia

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 799-808

  Dijkstra, Feike A ^a   Augustine, David J ^b   Brewer, Paul ^c   von Fischer, Joseph C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Nitrogen cycling; Plant microbial interactions; Temporal effects; Water addition

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC REGION; GRASSLAND; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT LOSS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL NUTRIENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 84867564979     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2336-6     Document Type: Article

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