Soil Microbial Activity During Secondary Vegetation Succession in Semiarid Abandoned Lands of Loess Plateau

Pedosphere

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 735-747

  JIANG, Jin Ping ^a,c   XIONG, You Cai ^a   JIANG, Hong Mei ^a   YE, De You ^b   SONG, Ya Jie ^d   LI, Feng Min ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GanSu Academy of Agricultural Science   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

microbial biomass carbon; microbial biomass nitrogen; SOC; soil enzyme activity

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GRASSLAND; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 70350776704     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1002-0160(09)60169-7     Document Type: Article

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