Soil-plant N processes in a High Arctic ecosystem, NW Greenland are altered by long-term experimental warming and higher rainfall

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3529-3539

  Schaeffer, Sean M ^a,b   Sharp, Elizabeth ^c   Schimel, Joshua P ^a   Welker, Jeffery M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon; Climate change; Global warming; Mineralization; Nitrification; Nitrogen; Polar semidesert; Precipitation; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESERT; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MINERALIZATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; PLANT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SOIL NITROGEN; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUMMER; TUNDRA;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

CARBON; DILTIAZEM; FLUORIDE VARNISH; NITROGEN; RAIN; WATER;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENLAND; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MINERALIZATION; NITRIFICATION; PLANT LEAF; POLAR SEMIDESERT; PRECIPITATION; ROSACEAE; SOIL; STABLE ISOTOPES; TEMPERATURE; WILLOW;

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; MINERALIZATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; POLAR SEMIDESERT; PRECIPITATION; STABLE ISOTOPES;

ARCTIC REGIONS; CARBON; FLUORIDES, TOPICAL; GREENLAND; NITROGEN; PLANT LEAVES; RAIN; ROSACEAE; SALIX; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 84885427422     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12318     Document Type: Article

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