Soil C and N availability determine the priming effect: Microbial N mining and stoichiometric decomposition theories

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2356-2367

  Chen, Ruirui ^a,b   Senbayram, Mehmet ^b,c   Blagodatsky, Sergey ^d,e   Myachina, Olga ^f   Dittert, Klaus ^b,c   Lin, Xiangui ^a   Blagodatskaya, Evgenia ^c,e   Kuzyakov, Yakov ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN SOIL SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

^f Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry   (Uzbekistan)

Author keywords

C cycle; Extracellular enzyme activity; Microbial growth kinetics; Priming mechanisms; R and K strategy; Soil microbial biomass; Soil organic matter turnover

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROGEN CYCLE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; STOICHIOMETRY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ZEA MAYS;

CARBON; NITROGEN; SOIL; SUCROSE;

CHEMISTRY; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL;

CARBON; NITROGEN; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SUCROSE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84901941926     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12475     Document Type: Article

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