Establishment of Elymus natans improves soil quality of a heavily degraded alpine meadow in Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, China

Plant and Soil

Volumn 327, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 403-411

  Feng, Ruizhang ^a,e   Long, Ruijun ^b   Shang, Zhanhuan ^b   Ma, Yushou ^c   Dong, Shikui ^d   Wang, Yanlong ^c  

^a NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Qinghai Academy of Animal and Veterinary Sciences   (China)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Microbial biomass; Plant biomass; Plantation age; Soil enzymes; Soil nutrients; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GRASS; MEADOW; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHYTOMASS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAMPLING; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL QUALITY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

ELYMUS;

EID: 74749089819     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-009-0065-3     Document Type: Article

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