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Articles | Volume 12, issue 3
Articles | Volume 12, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-757-2015
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-757-2015
© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 12, issue 3
Research article
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09 Feb 2015
Research article |  | 09 Feb 2015

Strong stoichiometric resilience after litter manipulation experiments; a case study in a Chinese grassland

C. Xiao, I. A. Janssens, Y. Zhou, J. Su, Y. Liang, and B. Guenet

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Global climate change may increase the litter inputs in some ecosystems impacting the soil–plant system functioning. We added litter, to the 10–20 cm subsoil layer of a steppe community at different rates. Small litter additions had no effect on the stoichiometry, whereas the highest additions (not realistic compared to the future predictions) modified the system slightly. It suggests that the grassland studied here is resilient to more plausible inputs in terms of stoichiometric functioning.
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