Soil Inorganic Nitrogen and Microbial Biomass Carbon and Nitrogen Under Pine Plantations in Zhanggutai Sandy Soil Project supported by the National Key Basic Research Program (973 Program) of China (No. 2007CB106803), the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KZCX1-YW-08-02), and the Key Laboratory of Terrestrial Ecological Process and Regional Ecological Safety

Pedosphere

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 775-784

  YU, Zhan Yuan ^a   CHEN, Fu Sheng ^b   ZENG, De Hui ^a   ZHAO, Qiong ^a   CHEN, Guang Sheng ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ecosystem management; Horqin sandy land; Pinus densiflora; Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica; soil nitrogen availability

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CONIFEROUS TREE; INORGANIC NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PLANTATION; RESEARCH; SANDY SOIL; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HORQIN DESERT; LIAONING; ZHANGGUTAI;

PINUS DENSIFLORA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 54949149913     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1002-0160(08)60073-9     Document Type: Article

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