Reviews and syntheses: Soil resources and climate jointly drive variations in microbial biomass carbon and nitrogen in China's forest ecosystems

Biogeosciences

Volumn 12, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 6751-6760

  Zhou, Z H ^a   Wang, C K ^a  

^a NORTHEAST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC FACTOR; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE EFFECT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC NITROGEN; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL TYPE; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 84948467365     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-12-6751-2015     Document Type: Review

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