Leaf P increase outpaces leaf N in an inner Mongolia grassland over 27 years

Biology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Mi, Zhaorong ^a,d   Huang, Yuanyuan ^b   Gan, Huijie ^b   Zhou, Wenjia ^b   Flynn, Dan F B ^a,c   He, Jin Sheng ^a,b  

^a NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese grassland; N : P stoichiometry; N deposition; Soil acidification

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LEAF AREA; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHOSPHORUS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STEPPE; STOICHIOMETRY; TIMESCALE;

MONGOLIA;

POACEAE;

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RAIN; SOIL;

CHEMISTRY; CHINA; GRASSLAND; PH; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; POACEAE; SOIL;

CHINA; GRASSLAND; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; POACEAE; RAIN; SOIL;

EID: 84921328731     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0981     Document Type: Article

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