Plant nitrogen uptake drives responses of productivity to nitrogen and water addition in a grassland

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Lü, Xiao Tao ^a   Dijkstra, Feike A ^b   Kong, De Liang ^c   Wang, Zheng Wen ^a   Han, Xing Guo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; SOIL; WATER;

CHEMISTRY; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; METABOLISM; PLANT; SOIL;

CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; NITROGEN; PLANTS; SOIL; WATER;

EID: 84899630320     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04817     Document Type: Article

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