Biological soil crusts increase the resistance of soil nitrogen dynamics to changes in temperatures in a semi-arid ecosystem

Plant and Soil

Volumn 366, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 35-47

  Delgado Baquerizo, Manuel ^a   Maestre, Fernando T ^b   Gallardo, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

DON; N depolymerization rate; N mineralization rate; Semiarid ecosystem

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARID ENVIRONMENT; BARE SOIL; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GRASS; GRASSLAND; GROUND COVER; LICHEN; LIVERWORT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINERALIZATION; MOSS; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN FIXATION; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL CRUST; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL WATER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TRANSFORMATION;

BRYOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; STIPA TENACISSIMA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84876443960     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-012-1404-3     Document Type: Article

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