Soil organic carbon storage and soil CO2 flux in the alpine meadow ecosystem

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1103-1114

  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

14C signature; Alpine meadow; CO2flux; Soil organic carbon; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE FLUX; MICROBIAL DECOPOSITION; ORGANIC CARBON POOLS; TRACING TECHNOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOSYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; ORGANIC CARBON;

SOILS;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

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

KOBRESIA;

EID: 34447331012     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-007-0055-3     Document Type: Article

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