Assessing management impacts on soil organic matter quality in subtropical Australian forests using physical and chemical fractionation as well as 13C NMR spectroscopy

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 640-650

  He, Yan ^a,b,c   Chen, Chengrong ^b   Xu, Zhihong ^b   Williams, David ^b   Xu, Jianming ^a,c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Subtropic Soil and Plant Nutrition   (China)

Author keywords

CPMAS 13C NMR; Forest; Land use and management impacts; Physical fractions; Sequential hot water extraction and acid hydrolysis; SOM quality assessment

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; EXTRACTION; FORESTRY; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; HYDROLYSIS; LAND USE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MANAGEMENT; MINERALOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REFORESTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; ROTATION; SOILS; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TRANSPIRATION; WATER;

CPMAS 13C NMR; FOREST; LAND USE AND MANAGEMENT IMPACTS; PHYSICAL FRACTIONS; SEQUENTIAL HOT WATER EXTRACTION AND ACID HYDROLYSIS; SOM QUALITY ASSESSMENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA);

ASSESSMENT METHOD; FRACTIONATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPECTROSCOPY; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

BIOMASS; EXTRACTION; FORESTRY; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; HYDROLYSIS; LAND USE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MANAGEMENT; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; REFORESTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RENEWABLE RESOURCES; SOIL; TRANSPIRATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 60249092088     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.01.008     Document Type: Article

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