Carbon sequestration in two alpine soils on the Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 900-905

  Tian, Yu Qiang ^a,b   Xu, Xing Liang ^b   Song, Ming Hua ^b   Zhou, Cai Ping ^b   Gao, Qiong ^a   Ouyang, Hua ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Alpine soils; Bomb carbon; Carbon sequestration; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; FOREST SOIL; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ARTICLE; CHINA; SOIL;

CARBON; SOIL; TIBET;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 69649091540     PISSN: 16729072     EISSN: 17447909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7909.2009.00852.x     Document Type: Article

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