Multiyear dual nitrate isotope signatures suggest that N-saturated subtropical forested catchments can act as robust N sinks

Global Change Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 3662-3674

  Yu, Longfei ^a   Zhu, Jing ^a,b   Mulder, Jan ^a   Dörsch, Peter ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b GUANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

denitrification; hydrological continuum; nitrification; 15N; 18O

Indexed keywords

NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN; SOIL;

CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST; SOIL;

CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTS; NITRATES; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; SOIL;

EID: 84971304001     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13333     Document Type: Article

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