Soil organic carbon stocks in estuarine and marine mangrove ecosystems are driven by nutrient colimitation of P and N

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 5043-5056

  Weiss, Christian ^a   Weiss, Joanna ^a   Boy, Jens ^a   Iskandar, Issi ^b   Mikutta, Robert ^c   Guggenberger, Georg ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b BOGOR AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecosystem functioning; global change; Indonesia; marine and estuarine mangroves; nitrogen; phosphorus; soil organic carbon; stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977118081     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2258     Document Type: Article

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