Net greenhouse gas balance in response to nitrogen enrichment: Perspectives from a coupled biogeochemical model

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 571-588

  Lu, Chaoqun ^a   Tian, Hanqin ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical model; Carbon nitrogen coupling; China; Greenhouse gas balance; Nitrogen enrichment

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON SINK; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; MODELING; NITROGEN; VEGETATION COVER;

ARTICLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; GAS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHINA; GASES; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NITROGEN;

CHINA;

EID: 84871935729     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12049     Document Type: Article

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