Short-term C4 plant Spartina alterniflora invasions change the soil carbon in C3 plant-dominated tidal wetlands on a growing estuarine Island

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3380-3386

  Cheng, Xiaoli ^a,c   Luo, Yiqi ^a,b   Chen, Jiquan ^a,c   Lin, Guanghui ^d,e   Chen, Jiakuan ^a   Li, Bo ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^e GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

C3 and C4 plants; Plant invasion; Soil organic carbon; Spartina alterniflora; Stable carbon isotope; The Yangtze River estuary

Indexed keywords

C3 AND C4 PLANTS; PLANT INVASION; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; STABLE CARBON ISOTOPE; THE YANGTZE RIVER ESTUARY;

BIODIVERSITY; ESTUARIES; SOILS; VEGETATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; GRASS; INVASIVE SPECIES; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; VEGETATION TYPE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JIUDUANSHA ISLAND; NORTH AMERICA; SHANGHAI; YANGTZE ESTUARY;

SCIRPUS MARIQUETER; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 33750023167     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2006.05.016     Document Type: Article

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