Soil N pools and transformation rates under different land uses in a subalpine forest-grassland ecotone

Pedosphere

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 52-58

  Sun, Geng ^a   Wu, Ning ^a   Luo, Peng ^a  

^a CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Denitrification; Gross nitrification; Land use; Subalpine forest grassland ecotone; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

DENITRIFICATION; ECOTONE; FOREST SOIL; GRASSLAND; LAND USE; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; WORLD;

EID: 13644262571     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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