Nitrogen uptake strategies of edaphically specialized Bornean tree species

Plant Ecology

Volumn 214, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1405-1416

  Russo, Sabrina E ^a,c   Kochsiek, Amy ^a   Olney, Jocelyn ^a   Thompson, Lauren ^a   Miller, Amy E ^b   Tan, Sylvester ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

15 N; Ammonium; Malaysia; Nitrate; Soil gradient; Stable isotope tracer experiment; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOREST SOIL; NITRATE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; RAINFOREST; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL TYPE; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); STABLE ISOTOPE; TRACER;

BORNEO;

EID: 84885931275     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-013-0260-4     Document Type: Article

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