Elevation alters carbon and nutrient concentrations and stoichiometry in Quercus aquifolioides in southwestern China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 622-623, Issue , 2018, Pages 1463-1475

  Wang, Ao ^a,c,g   Wang, Xue ^a,b,g   Tognetti, Roberto ^d   Lei, Jing Pin ^e   Pan, Hong Li ^f   Liu, Xing Liang ^f   Jiang, Yong ^b   Wang, Xiao Yu ^b,g   He, Peng ^b,g   Yu, Fei Hai ^a   Li, Mai He ^b,g  

^a TAIZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^c BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^e RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^f Sichuan Academy of Forestry   (China)

^g SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Elevational gradient; Global warming; Nitrogen; Non structural carbohydrates; Phosphorus

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATES; CARBON; GLOBAL WARMING; HISTOLOGY; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS;

ABOVE-GROUND TISSUES; ELEVATIONAL GRADIENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; HIGH ELEVATION; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; NON-STRUCTURAL CARBOHYDRATES; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; P AVAILABILITIES;

TISSUE;

CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

BIOACCUMULATION; CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON; ELEVATION; GLOBAL WARMING; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHOSPHORUS; STOICHIOMETRY;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; OAK; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; PLANT NUTRIENT; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; PLANT TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUERCUS AQUIFOLIOIDES; SHOOT; STOICHIOMETRY; SUMMER; WINTER; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL;

BALANG MOUNTAIN; CHINA; SICHUAN;

QUERCUS AQUIFOLIOIDES;

ALTITUDE; CARBOHYDRATES; CARBON; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; QUERCUS; SOIL;

EID: 85038839795     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.12.070     Document Type: Article

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