Stoichiometry of root and leaf nitrogen and phosphorus in a dry alpine steppe on the northern Tibetan Plateau

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Hong, Jiangtao ^a,b   Wang, Xiaodan ^a   Wu, Jianbo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHINA; CLIMATE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DENSITY GRADIENT; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT NUTRITION; PLANT ROOT; STEPPE; STIPA; STIPA PURPUREA; STOICHIOMETRY; CHEMISTRY; GRASSLAND; POACEAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE;

CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; POACEAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TIBET;

EID: 84907752922     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109052     Document Type: Article

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