Soil organic carbon and total nitrogen as affected by vegetation types in Northern Loess Plateau of China

Geoderma

Volumn 155, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 31-35

  Fu, Xiaoli ^a,b   Shao, Mingan ^a   Wei, Xiaorong ^a   Horton, Robert ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Northern Loess Plateau; Soil organic carbon; Total nitrogen; Vegetation type

Indexed keywords

C:N RATIO; CHINESE GOVERNMENT; HILLSLOPES; LOESS PLATEAU; LOESS PLATEAU AREA; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL PROFILES; SOIL SAMPLE; TOTAL NITROGEN; VEGETATION RESTORATION; VEGETATION TYPE; WATER EROSION;

CATCHMENTS; CHELATION; DEGRADATION; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; RESTORATION; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS;

VEGETATION;

HILLSLOPE; LOESS; MILLET; SAMPLING; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROFILE; TRANSITION ZONE; VEGETATION TYPE; WATER EROSION; WIND EROSION;

CHINA;

CARAGANA; MEDICAGO SATIVA;

EID: 73449128259     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2009.11.020     Document Type: Article

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