Soil carbon and nitrogen in relation to shrub size and death in a semi-arid grassland

Geoderma

Volumn 145, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 60-68

  McClaran, Mitchel P ^a   Moore Kucera, Jennifer ^b   Martens, Dean A ^c   van Haren, Joost ^a   Marsh, Stuart E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Carbon sequestration; Fertile islands; Mineral associated organic matter; Particulate organic matter; Prosopis spp.; Soil fractions

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; NITROGEN; SOILS;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; MINERAL ASSOCIATED ORGANIC MATTER; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL FRACTIONS;

ORGANIC CARBON;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GRASSLAND; INVASIVE SPECIES; ISLAND; MORTALITY; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; ORGANIC CARBON; SEMIARID REGION; SHRUB; SIZE EFFECT; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN;

CARBON; CHELATION; ISOTOPES; NITROGEN; SOIL; TREES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PROSOPIS; PROSOPIS VELUTINA;

EID: 43749123872     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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