Proximate controls on semiarid soil greenhouse gas fluxes across 3 million years of soil development

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 375-391

  Sullivan, Benjamin W ^a   Nasto, Megan K ^b   Hart, Stephen C ^c   Hungate, Bruce A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Methane; Nitrous oxide; Nutrient addition; Seasonality; Substrate age gradient

Indexed keywords

DENITRIFICATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; NITRIFICATION; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL NITROGEN; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER AVAILABILITY;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84944168282     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: 1573515X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-015-0133-0     Document Type: Article

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