Nitrogen dynamics in Turbic Cryosols from Siberia and Greenland

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 67, Issue , 2013, Pages 85-93

  Wild, Birgit ^a,b   Schnecker, Jörg ^a,b   Bárta, Jiří ^c   Čapek, Petr ^c   Guggenberger, Georg ^d   Hofhansl, Florian ^a   Kaiser, Christina ^a,e   Lashchinsky, Nikolaj ^f   Mikutta, Robert ^d   Mooshammer, Maria ^a   Šantrůčková, Hana ^c   Shibistova, Olga ^d,g   Urich, Tim ^a,b,h   Zimov, Sergey A ⁱ   Richter, Andreas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Austrian Polar Research Institute   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^d LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^e INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^f RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^g SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST   (Russian Federation)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

ⁱ PACIFIC INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Arctic; Cryoturbation; Ecological stoichiometry; Nitrification; Nitrogen availability; Nitrogen mineralization; Nitrogen transformation; Protein depolymerization; Soil organic matter; Tundra

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; CRYOTURBATION; ECOLOGICAL STOICHIOMETRY; NITROGEN AVAILABILITY; NITROGEN MINERALIZATION; NITROGEN TRANSFORMATIONS; PROTEIN DEPOLYMERIZATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; TUNDRA;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DECAY (ORGANIC); DEPOLYMERIZATION; MINERALOGY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PERMAFROST; PROTEINS;

SOILS;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CRYOTURBATION; DECOMPOSITION; FREEZING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINERALIZATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE; PERMAFROST; PROTEIN; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; STOICHIOMETRY; SUBSOIL; THAWING; TRANSFORMATION; TUNDRA;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; SIBERIA;

EID: 84883780718     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.08.004     Document Type: Article

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