Warming and increased precipitation have differential effects on soil extracellular enzyme activities in a temperate grassland

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 444, Issue , 2013, Pages 552-558

  Zhou, Xiaoqi ^a,b,c   Chen, Chengrong ^b   Wang, Yanfen ^a   Xu, Zhihong ^b   Han, Hongyan ^d   Li, Linghao ^d   Wan, Shiqiang ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SCION   (New Zealand)

^d INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^e HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Extracellular enzyme activity; Grassland; Increased precipitation; Inner Mongolia; Microbial biomass; Warming

Indexed keywords

EXTRACELLULAR ENZYME ACTIVITY; GRASSLAND; INNER MONGOLIA; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; WARMING;

AMINO ACIDS; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; PHOSPHATASES; PHOSPHORUS; SOL-GELS;

SOILS;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINIDASE; ACID PHOSPHATASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMMONIA; BETA GLUCOSIDASE; CYTOSOL AMINOPEPTIDASE; NITRATE;

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GRASSLAND; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PH; PHOSPHATASE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SOIL CHEMISTRY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WARMING;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR ENZYME ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; SOIL; SOIL ACIDITY; SOIL PROPERTY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATE GRASSLAND; WARMING;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINIDASE; ACID PHOSPHATASE; CELLULASES; CHINA; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENZYMES; LEUCYL AMINOPEPTIDASE; POACEAE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 84872178691     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.12.023     Document Type: Article

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