Soil organic carbon storage and vertical distribution of alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 720-728

  Tao, Zhen ^a,b   Shen, Chengde ^b   Gao, Quanzhou ^a   Sun, Yanmin ^b   Yi, Weixi ^b   Li, Yingnian ^c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^c NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Alpine meadow; Global carbon budget; Global change; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

CARBON BUDGET; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 33749350478     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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