Plant and soil responses of an alpine steppe on the Tibetan Plateau to multi-level nitrogen addition

Plant and Soil

Volumn 373, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 515-529

  Liu, Yongwen ^a,b   Xu Ri, ^a   Xu, Xingliang ^c   Wei, Da ^a,b   Wang, Yinghong ^d   Wang, Yuesi ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

N isotope fractionation; N limitation; N saturation; N uptake efficiency; N use efficiency; N:P stoichiometry

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BIOMASS; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LEGUME; NITROGEN CYCLE; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENCY; SOIL NUTRIENT; STEPPE; STOICHIOMETRY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

KOBRESIA;

EID: 84888298667     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-013-1814-x     Document Type: Article

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