Plant compensation to grazing and soil carbon dynamics in a tropical grassland

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Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ritchie, Mark E ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensation; Grasslands; Grazing; Herbivory; Leaf area; Modeling; Plants; Serengeti; Soil carbon; Tropical

Indexed keywords

LIGNIN; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACACIA TORTILIS; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CARBON DYNAMICS; DIGITARIA; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GRAZING; LEAF AREA; LEAF GAS EXCHANGE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PENNISETUM; SAVANNA; SOIL TEXTURE; SOIL WATER POTENTIAL; TANZANIA;

EID: 84895732037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.233     Document Type: Article

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