Distribution of Soil Enzyme Activities and Microbial Biomass Along a Latitudinal Gradient in Farmlands of Songliao Plain, Northeast China1 1 Project supported by the National Key Basic Research Support Foundation of China (No. 2005CB121105) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30670379).

Pedosphere

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 431-440

  LIU, Xiu Mei ^a,b   LI, Qi ^a,b   LIANG, Wen Ju ^a,b   JIANG, Yong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

farmlands; hydrolases; latitudinal gradient; microbial biomass; soil organic matter

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIOMASS; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MAIZE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHOSPHATASE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROPERTY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SONGLIAO PLAIN;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 45949104745     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1002-0160(08)60034-X     Document Type: Article

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