Shifting soil resource limitations and ecosystem retrogression across a three million year semi-arid substrate age gradient

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 124, Issue 1-3, 2015, Pages 177-186

  Newman, Gregory S ^a,b   Hart, Stephen C ^a,c  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronosequence; N:P stoichiometry; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Pi on juniper; Soil development

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; C4 PLANT; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; FOLIAGE; GRASS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHOSPHORUS; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL WATER; WATER AVAILABILITY;

BOUTELOUA GRACILIS; JUNIPERUS;

EID: 84930272554     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: 1573515X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-015-0090-7     Document Type: Article

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