Climatic dependency of soil organic carbon isotopic composition along the S-N Transect from 34°N to 52°N in central-east Asia

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 257, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 335-343

  Feng, Z D ^a,b   Wang, L X ^c   Ji, Y H ^d   Guo, L L ^e   Lee, X Q ^f   Dworkin, S I ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Provincial Environmental Quality Monitoring Administration   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^e BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic dependency; Biogeochemistry; Chinese Loess Plateau; Mongolian Plateau; Soil carbon isotope

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GROWING SEASON; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU; MONGOLIAN PLATEAU;

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; AMARANTHACEAE;

EID: 37449020890     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.10.026     Document Type: Article

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