Plant and microbial responses to nitrogen and phosphorus addition across an elevational gradient in subarctic tundra

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1819-1835

  Sundqvist, Maja K ^a,c   Liu, Zhanfeng ^b   Giesler, Reiner ^c   Wardle, David A ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Above And Belowground Communities; Fertilization Experiment; Fungal To Bacterial Ratios; Global Warming; Plant Functional Groups; Plant Soil Linkages

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ELEVATION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; HEATHLAND; LIMITING FACTOR; MEADOW; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SUBARCTIC REGION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TUNDRA; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; FUNGUS; GLOBAL WARMING; NUTRIENT LIMITATION;

SWEDEN;

FERTILIZER; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLIMATE; DRUG EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; SOIL; SWEDEN; TEMPERATURE;

ALTITUDE; BACTERIA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FERTILIZERS; FUNGI; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANTS; SOIL; SWEDEN; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84904342788     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0869.1     Document Type: Article

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