Carbon and nitrogen turnover in response to warming and nitrogen addition during early stages of forest litter decomposition-an incubation experiment

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 312-324

  Guo, Ruihong ^a,b   Zheng, Junqiang ^a   Han, Shijie ^a   Zhang, Junhui ^a   Li, Mai He ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Broad leaf Korean mixed forest; Carbon and nitrogen turnover; Litter decomposition; Nitrogen addition; Temperature

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECOMPOSITION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LEAF LITTER; MIXED FOREST; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; NUTRIENT CYCLING; TEMPERATE FOREST; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TURNOVER;

CHINA;

PINUS KORAIENSIS; QUERCUS MONGOLICA; TILIA; TILIA AMURENSIS;

EID: 84872849875     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: 16147480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-012-0630-x     Document Type: Article

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