Changes in topsoil carbon stock in the Tibetan grasslands between the 1980s and 2004

Global Change Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2723-2729

  Yang, Yuanhe ^a   Fang, Jingyun ^a   Smith, Pete ^b   Tang, Yanhong ^c   Chen, Anping ^a   Ji, Chengjun ^a   Hu, Huifeng ^a   Rao, Sheng ^a   Tan, Kun ^a   He, Jin Sheng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alpine grasslands; Normalized difference vegetation index; Soil organic carbon; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GRASSLAND; NDVI; ORGANIC CARBON; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL CARBON; SOIL SURVEY; TOPSOIL; VEGETATION INDEX;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 74049140133     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01924.x     Document Type: Article

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