On the combined effect of soil fertility and topography on tree growth in subtropical forest ecosystems'a study from SE China

Journal of Plant Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 111-127

  Scholten, Thomas ^a   Goebes, Philipp ^a   Kuhn, Peter ^a   Seitz, Steffen ^a   Assmann, Thorsten ^b   Bauhus, Jurgen ^c   Bruelheide, Helge ^d,e   Buscot, Francois ^e,f   Erfmeier, Alexandra ^b   Fischer, Markus ^g   Hartle, Werner ^b   He, Jin Sheng ^h   Ma, Keping ⁱ   Niklaus, Pascal A ^j   Scherer Lorenzen, Michael ^c   Schmid, Bernhard ^j   Shi, Xuezheng ⁱ   Song, Zhengshan ^a,i   Von Oheimb, Goddert ^k   Wirth, Christian ^e,l   Wubet, Tesfaye ^e,f   Schmidt, Karsten ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Leuphana University Leburg   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^e GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^f HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^h PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^j University of Zich   (Switzerland)

^k DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

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Author keywords

BEF China; Biodiversity; Carbon Stocks; China; DSM; Forest; Matter Transport; Soil Erosion; Soil Fertility; Topography; Tree

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014538466     PISSN: 17529921     EISSN: 1752993X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtw065     Document Type: Article

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