Biomass and Its Allocation in Relation to Temperature, Precipitation, and Soil Nutrients in Inner Mongolia Grasslands, China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Kang, Muyi ^a   Dai, Cheng ^a   Ji, Wenyao ^a   Jiang, Yuan ^a   Yuan, Zhiyou ^b   Chen, Han Y H ^a,b,c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ANHUI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; CLIMATE; DESERT; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GRASSLAND; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT; PRECIPITATION; PREDICTION; SAMPLING; SOIL CHEMISTRY;

BIOMASS; CHINA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PLANT ROOTS; POACEAE; RAIN; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 84880780574     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069561     Document Type: Article

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