Relative contributions of plant traits and soil microbial properties to mountain grassland ecosystem services

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 47-57

  Grigulis, Karl ^a   Lavorel, Sandra ^b   Krainer, Ute ^c   Legay, Nicolas ^b   Baxendale, Catherine ^d   Dumont, Maxime ^e   Kastl, Eva ^f   Arnoldi, Cindy ^b   Bardgett, Richard D ^d   Poly, Franck ^e   Pommier, Thomas ^e   Schloter, Michael ^f   Tappeiner, Ulrike ^c   Bahn, Michael ^c   Clément, Jean Christophe ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^f INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Denitrifying and nitrifying microbial communities; Ecosystem service trade offs; Grassland management; Long term ecological research sites; Microbial functioning; Nitrogen cycling; Plant economics spectrum; Plant functional diversity; Plant soil (below ground) interactions; Plant soil microbe interactions

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GRASSLAND; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOUNTAIN REGION; NITROGEN CYCLE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TRADE-OFF;

EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 84871479700     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12014     Document Type: Article

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