Articles | Volume 13, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5619-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5619-2016
Research article
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10 Oct 2016
Research article |  | 10 Oct 2016

Flower litters of alpine plants affect soil nitrogen and phosphorus rapidly in the eastern Tibetan Plateau

Jinniu Wang, Bo Xu, Yan Wu, Jing Gao, and Fusun Shi

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Flower litters fed soil nutrition pool more efficiently because of their faster decomposition rate and higher nutrient contents. The underlying mechanism can enrich nutrients, which return to the soil, and non-structural carbohydrates, which feed and enhance the transitions of soil microorganisms. It can be realized that nature is more complex and magical than we thought. There are still some miraculous points of interaction between soil and plant to be explored in the future.
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