Seasonal trends of dry and bulk concentration of nitrogen compounds over a rain forest in Ghana

Biogeosciences

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3069-3081

  Fattore, F ^a   Bertolini, T ^b   Materia, S ^b   Gualdi, S ^b,d   Thongo M'Bou, A ^b   Nicolini, G ^b,c   Valentini, R ^b,c   De Grandcourt, A ^b   Tedesco, D ^a   Castaldi, S ^a,b  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOREST CANOPY; NITROGEN CYCLE; RAINFOREST; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

GHANA;

EID: 84902438779     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-11-3069-2014     Document Type: Article

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