15N-nitrate-labelling demonstrates a size symmetric competitive effect on belowground resource uptake

Plant Ecology - Tập 199 Số 2 - Trang 243-253 - 2008
Maik Bartelheimer1, Thomas Steinlein1, Wolfram Beyschlag1
1Chair of Experimental and Systems Ecology, University of Bielefeld, Universitätsstr. 25, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany

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