Seasonal partitioning of resource use and constraints on the growth of soil microbes and a forage grass in a grazed Arctic salt-marsh

Plant and Soil

Volumn 322, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 279-291

  Hargreaves, Sarah K ^a   Horrigan, Emma J ^a   Jefferies, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fertilizer addition; Grazing; Hudson Bay coast; Lesser snow geese; Microbial and plant carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus; Puccinellia phryganodes; Seasonal biomass changes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894257392     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-009-9915-2     Document Type: Article

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