Estimating soil labile organic carbon and potential turnover rates using a sequential fumigation-incubation procedure

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1923-1928

  Zou, X M ^a,b   Ruan, H H ^c   Fu, Y ^a   Yang, X D ^a   Sha, L Q ^a  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon pools; Carbon turnover rates; Labile organic carbon; Soil analytical methods; Soil carbon

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ESTIMATION; FLUXES; FUMIGATION; OXIDATION; SOILS;

FRACTIONATION METHODS; INCUBATION; LABILE CARBON; POTENTIAL TURNOVER RATES;

CARBON;

ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL CARBON;

EID: 20544449957     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2005.02.028     Document Type: Article

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