Altitudinal Gradient of Microbial Biomass Phosphorus and Its Relationship with Microbial Biomass Carbon, Nitrogen, and Rhizosphere Soil Phosphorus on the Eastern Slope of Gongga Mountain, SW China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Sun, Hongyang ^a,b   Wu, Yanhong ^a   Yu, Dong ^a   Zhou, Jun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RAIN;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CHINA; FRACTIONATION; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; NONHUMAN; PH; PRECIPITATION; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION;

ALTITUDE; BIOMASS; CARBON; CHINA; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHY; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

EID: 84883536600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072952     Document Type: Article

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