Adjustment of microbial nitrogen use efficiency to carbon:nitrogen imbalances regulates soil nitrogen cycling

Microbial nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) describes the partitioning of organic N taken up between growth and the release of inorganic N to the environment (that is, N mineralization), and is thus central to our understanding of N cycling. Here we report empirical evidence that microbial decomposer co...

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Main Authors: Mooshammer, Maria, Wanek, Wolfgang, Hämmerle, Ieda, Fuchslueger, Lucia, Hofhansl, Florian, Knoltsch, Anna, Schnecker, Jörg, Takriti, Mounir, Watzka, Margarete, Wild, Birgit, Keiblinger, Katharina M, Zechmeister-Boltenstern, Sophie, Richter, Andreas
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Pub. Group 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3997803/