Changes in stable nitrogen and carbon isotope ratios of plants and soil across a boreal forest fire chronosequence

Plant and Soil

Volumn 367, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 111-119

  Hyodo, Fujio ^a   Kusaka, Soichiro ^b   Wardle, David A ^c   Nilsson, Marie Charlotte ^c  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Chronosequence; Mycorrhiza; N2 fixation; Pleurozium schreberi

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; DOMINANCE; FOREST FIRE; HUMUS; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LIMITING FACTOR; MOSS; MYCORRHIZA; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; SHRUB; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VASCULAR PLANT;

BRYOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; FUNGI; PLEUROZIUM SCHREBERI; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84878550945     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-013-1667-3     Document Type: Article

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