Future productivity and carbon storage limited by terrestrial nutrient availability

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 441-444

  Wieder, William R ^a,b   Cleveland, Cory C ^c   Smith, W Kolby ^c,d   Todd Brown, Katherine ^e,f  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^f PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; LAND SURFACE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHOSPHORUS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 84987815270     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NGEO2413     Document Type: Article

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