Responses of enzymatic activities within soil aggregates to 9-year nitrogen and water addition in a semi-arid grassland

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 81, Issue , 2015, Pages 159-167

  Wang, Ruzhen ^a,f   Dorodnikov, Maxim ^b   Yang, Shan ^a,c   Zhang, Yongyong ^a,f   Filley, Timothy R ^d   Turco, Ronald F ^e   Zhang, Yuge ^c   Xu, Zhuwen ^a   Li, Hui ^a   Jiang, Yong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c SHENYANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Extracellular enzymes; Global change; Microbial nitrogen limitation; Nitrogen deposition; Precipitation regimes; Temperate grassland

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; ECOSYSTEMS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGI; MICROORGANISMS; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS;

EXTRACELLULAR ENZYMES; GLOBAL CHANGE; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; NITROGEN LIMITATION; PRECIPITATION REGIMES; TEMPERATE GRASSLANDS;

SOILS;

BIOMASS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL BIOTA; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; WATER AVAILABILITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 84949116509     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2014.11.015     Document Type: Article

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