Turf-bearing topsoils on the central Tibetan Plateau, China: Pedology, botany, geochronology

Catena

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 300-311

  Kaiser, Knut ^a,e   Miehe, Georg ^a,e   Barthelmes, Alexandra ^b,e   Ehrmann, Otto ^c,e   Scharf, Andreas ^d,e   Schult, Manuela ^b,e   Schlütz, Frank ^d,e   Adamczyk, Sonja ^e,f   Frenzel, Burkhard ^e,f  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c Bureau of Soil Biology and Micromorphology   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpine turf; Qinghai Xizang Plateau; Topsoil properties; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

CAMBISOL; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLEYSOL; HOLOCENE; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOBOTANY; PEDOLOGY; SEDGE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TOPSOIL; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION;

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

CAREX; KOBRESIA; KOBRESIA PYGMAEA; KOBRESIA SCHOENOIDES; POACEAE; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 42149172699     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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