Soil inorganic carbon stock in the Tibetan alpine grasslands

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Yang, Yuanhe ^a   Fang, Jingyun ^a   Ji, Chengjun ^a   Ma, Wenhong ^b   Su, Shenshen ^a   Tang, Zhiyao ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE MEADOW; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON POOL; INORGANIC CARBON; INORGANIC COMPONENTS; KRIGING INTERPOLATION; REGIONAL LEVELS; SOIL CARBON STOCK; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; TERRESTRIAL BIOSPHERE; TIBETANS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

CARBON; FORESTRY; INTERPOLATION; LAKES; SOILS;

ORGANIC CARBON;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CARBON BALANCE; GRASSLAND; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

CHINA; XIZANG;

EID: 78649866522     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GB003804     Document Type: Article

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