Nitrogen supply of grassland and its belowground productivity as influenced by stocking rate, management and availability of water

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Klaus Dittert
• Subject Area: Soil Sciences
• Term: from 2004 to 2012
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5470836

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Publications

• (2008): Slope aspect has effects on productivity and species composition of hilly grassland in the Xilin River Basin, Inner Mongolia, China. Journal of Arid Environments, 72 (4), 483-493
  Gong, X., Brueck, H., Giese, K.M., Zhang, L., Sattelmacher, B., Lin, S.
  
• (2009): Effects of grazing and rainfall variability on root and shoot decomposition in a semi-arid grassland. Applied Soil Ecology, 41 (1), 8-18
  Giese, M., Gao, Y.Z., Zhao, Y., Pan, Q., Lin, S., Peth, S., Brueck, H.
  
• (2009): Land use and drought interactively affect interspecific competition and species diversity at the local scale in a semiarid steppe ecosystem. Ecological Research, 24 (3), 627-635
  Gao, Y.Z., Giese, M., Han, X.G., Wang, D.L., Zhou, Z.Y., Brueck, H., Lin, S., Taube, F.
  
• (2010): Effects of N and water supply on water use-efficiency of a semiarid grassland in Inner Mongolia. Plant and Soil, 328 (1), 495-505
  Brueck, H., Erdle, K., Gao, Y., Giese, M., Zhao, Y., Peth, S., Lin, S.
  
• (2011): Above and belowground net primary productivity of grassland influenced by supplemental water and nitrogen in Inner Mongolia. Plant and Soil, 340 (1-2), 253-264
  Li, J., Lin, S., Taube, F., Pan, Q., Dittert, K.
  
• (2011): Nitrogen availability in a grazed semi-arid grassland is dominated by seasonal rainfall. Plant and Soil, 340 (1-2), 157-167
  Giese, M., Gao, Y.Z., Lin, S., Brueck, H.
  
• (2011): Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium nutritional status of semiarid steppe grassland in Inner Mongolia. Plant and Soil, 340 (1-2), 265-278
  Gong, X.Y., Chen, Q., Dittert, K., Taube, F., Lin, S.
  
• (2011): Plant responses following grazing removal at different stocking rates in an Inner Mongolia grassland ecosystem. Plant and Soil, 340 (1-2), 199-213
  Liu, Y.S., Pan, Q.M., Liu, H.D., Bai, Y.F., Simmons, M., Dittert, K., Han, X.G.
  
• (2011): Resource manipulation effects on net primary production, biomass allocation and rain-use efficiency of two semiarid grassland sites in Inner Mongolia, China. Oecologia, 165 (4), 855-864
  Gao, Y.Z.., Chen, Q., Lin, S., Giese, M., Brueck, H.
  
• (2011): Short-term regrowth responses of four steppe grassland species to water, nitrogen, and grazing intensity in Inner Mongolia. Plant and Soil, 340 (1-2), 279-289
  Fanselow, N., Schönbach, P., Gong, X.Y., Lin S., Taube F., Loges, R., Pan, Q., Dittert, K.
  
• (2011): Tradeoffs between nitrogen- and water-use efficiency in dominant species of the semiarid steppe of Inner Mongolia. Plant and Soil, 340 (1-2), 227-238
  Gong, X.Y., Chen, Q., Lin, S., Brueck, H., Dittert, K., Taube, F., Schnyder, H.