Growing season methane budget of an Inner Mongolian steppe

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 3086-3095

  Liu, Chunyan ^a   Holst, Jirko ^b,c   Yao, Zhisheng ^a   Brüggemann, Nicolas ^b   Butterbach Bahl, Klaus ^b   Han, Shenghui ^a   Han, Xingguo ^d   Tas, Bart ^e   Susenbeth, Andreas ^e   Zheng, Xunhua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Floodplain; Grazing; MAGIM; Methane; Sheepfold

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC SOILS; BUDGET CALCULATIONS; DRY WEIGHTS; FLOODPLAIN; GRAZING; GROWING SEASONS; INNER MONGOLIA; MAGIM; NATURAL SOURCES; RIVER CATCHMENTS; SEMI-ARID GRASSLANDS; SHEEPFOLD; SOURCE STRENGTHS; TERRESTRIAL SINKS; TRACE GAS MEASUREMENTS;

AGRICULTURE; BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CATCHMENTS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; MAMMALS; METHANE; RIVERS; SOILS; VOLCANOES; WOOL;

BUDGET CONTROL;

METHANE; WATER;

CATCHMENT; FLOODPLAIN; GRAZING; GROWING SEASON; LAND USE; LIVESTOCK; METHANE; PASTORALISM; STEPPE; TRACE GAS;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BOVIDS; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; GRAZING; GREENHOUSE GAS; LANDSCAPE; MONGOLIA; NONHUMAN; PASTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SOIL TEMPERATURE; STEPPE; SUMMER; WINTER;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NEI MONGGOL; XILIN BASIN;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 67349143073     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.03.014     Document Type: Article

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