Nitrogen and phosphorous limitation reduces the effects of land use change on land carbon uptake or emission

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Wang, Ying Ping ^a   Zhang, Qian ^b   Pitman, Andrew J ^c   Dai, Yongjiu ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

carbon cycle; Earth system modeling; land use and land cover change; nutrient limitation

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; LAND USE; METABOLISM; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; NUTRITION; PHOSPHORUS; REFORESTATION; TROPICS;

CARBON CYCLES; CLIMATE MITIGATIONS; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NUTRIENT INTERACTIONS; NUTRIENT LIMITATIONS; TROPICAL REGIONS;

CARBON;

BOREAL FOREST; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MITIGATION; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHOSPHORUS; REFORESTATION; SIMULATION;

CARBON; DEFORESTATION; LAND USE; NUTRIENTS;

EID: 84921787420     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/1/014001     Document Type: Article

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