Biomass partitioning and its relationship with the environmental factors at the alpine steppe in northern Tibet

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Wu, Jianbo ^a   Hong, Jiangtao ^a,b   Wang, Xiaodan ^a   Sun, Jian ^a,b   Lu, Xuyang ^a   Fan, Jihui ^a   Cai, Yanjiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

ALPINE STEPPE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS PARTITIONING; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GRASSLAND; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; SOIL PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE;

ALTITUDE; BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; POACEAE; TEMPERATURE; TIBET;

EID: 84892603997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081986     Document Type: Article

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