Elevational Variation in Soil Amino Acid and Inorganic Nitrogen Concentrations in Taibai Mountain, China

Amino acids are important sources of soil organic nitrogen (N), which is essential for plant nutrition, but detailed information about which amino acids predominant and whether amino acid composition varies with elevation is lacking. In this study, we hypothesized that the concentrations of amino ac...

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Main Authors: Cao, Xiaochuang, Ma, Qingxu, Zhong, Chu, Yang, Xin, Zhu, Lianfeng, Zhang, Junhua, Jin, Qianyu, Wu, Lianghuan
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918969/