δ 15N of soil nitrogen pools and their dynamics under decomposing leaf litters in a suburban native forest subject to repeated prescribed burning in southeast Queensland, Australia

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1063-1074

  Wang, Yuzhe ^a,b   Xu, Zhihong ^b   Zheng, Junqiang ^b,c   Abdullah, Kadum M ^b   Zhou, Qixing ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

15N pool dilution technique; Gross N transformation rates; In situ core incubation; Litter decomposition; Prescribed fire; 15N of inorganic N

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937764461     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: 16147480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-015-1117-3     Document Type: Article

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