Responses of soil microbial biomass and enzymatic activities to different forms of organic nitrogen deposition in the subtropical forests in East China

Ecological Research

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 447-457

  Lü, Yanna ^a   Wang, Congyan ^b   Jia, Yanyan ^a   Du, Jingjing ^a   Ma, Xu ^a   Wang, Wenwen ^a   Pu, Gaozhong ^a   Tian, Xingjun ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Broad leaved forest; Coniferous forest; Extracellular enzymatic activities; Organic nitrogen deposition; Soil microbial biomass

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOMASS; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXCRETION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ORGANIC NITROGEN; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SUBTROPICAL REGION; UREA;

CHINA;

EID: 84877003509     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-013-1033-1     Document Type: Article

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