Vegetation controls on soil organic carbon dynamics in an arid, hyperthermic ecosystem

Geoderma

Volumn 150, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 214-223

  White II, David A ^a   Welty Bernard, Amy ^b   Rasmussen, Craig ^a   Schwartz, Egbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregate stability; Analysis of similarity; Arid ecosystem; Bouteloua aristidoides; Bouteloua barbata; Carbon mineralization; Hyperthermic; Incubation; Larrea tridentata; Multi dimensional scaling; Prosopis velutina; Soil organic carbon; Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FIRE HAZARDS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LAKES; MINERALOGY; ORGANIC CARBON; POLYMORPHISM; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; SOILS; STABILITY; ULTRASONIC TESTING;

AGGREGATE STABILITY; ANALYSIS OF SIMILARITY; ARID ECOSYSTEM; BOUTELOUA ARISTIDOIDES; BOUTELOUA BARBATA; CARBON MINERALIZATION; HYPERTHERMIC; INCUBATION; LARREA TRIDENTATA; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; PROSOPIS VELUTINA; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

VEGETATION;

AGGREGATE STABILITY; ARID ENVIRONMENT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINERALIZATION; PH; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; VEGETATION; VEGETATION TYPE;

NORTH AMERICA; SONORAN DESERT;

ARISTIDA ADSCENSIONIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOUTELOUA ARISTIDOIDES; BOUTELOUA BARBATA; CYNODON DACTYLON; LARREA; LARREA TRIDENTATA; POACEAE; PROSOPIS; PROSOPIS VELUTINA;

EID: 62049084071     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2009.02.011     Document Type: Article

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