Mechanisms for the retention of inorganic N in acidic forest soils of southern China

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Jin Bo ^a,b   Cai, Zu Cong ^a,b   Zhu, Tong Bin ^a,b   Yang, Wen Yan ^a   Müller, Christoph ^c  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INORGANIC COMPOUND; NITROGEN DERIVATIVE; SOIL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PH; SOIL; TREE;

CHINA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INORGANIC CHEMICALS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; SOIL; TREES;

EID: 84881448099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02342     Document Type: Article

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