Vegetation-mediated feedback in water, carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycles

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 599-614

  Wassen, Martin J ^a   de Boer, Hugo J ^a   Fleischer, Katrin ^a   Rebel, Karin T ^a   Dekker, Stefan C ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carbon; Ecosystem; Feedbacks; Global climate change; Nitrogen; Nutrients; Phosphorus; Plants; Scales; Stomata; Water

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT FLUX; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LAND USE CHANGE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHOSPHORUS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TRANSPIRATION;

EID: 84876079118     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9843-z     Document Type: Article

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