Relationship between root biomass and soil organic matter pools in the shortgrass steppe of eastern Colorado

Ecosystems

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 226-236

  Gill, Richard ^a,b   Burke, Ingrid C ^a   Milchunas, Daniel G ^a   Lauenroth, William K ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

14C; Carbon cycling; Plant soil interactions; Soil fractionation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032809736     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100219900070     Document Type: Article

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