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. 2016 Sep 23;130(1):117–131. doi: 10.1007/s10533-016-0247-z

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Fig. 8 — Overall picture of C, N, S and P in SOM. Data for temperate litter stoichiometry are from Trofymow et al. (1995), for tropical plant (tree) litter from Tripathi and Singh (1992), Thompson and Vitousek (1997), Chuyong et al. (2002), Hirobe et al. (2004) and Isaac and Nair (2005), and for microbial biomass from Fagerbakke et al. (1996), Cleveland and Liptzin (2007), Griffiths et al. (2012). The illustrative three-component mixture has a stoichiometry adjusted to coincide with that of NRSOM (see text)