Loss of faster-cycling soil carbon pools following grass invasion across multiple forest sites

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 452-454

  Strickland, Michael S ^a   DeVore, Jayna L ^b   Maerz, John C ^b   Bradford, Mark A ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual grass; Carbon sequestration; Carbon sink; Exotic species; Japanese stiltgrass; Microstegium vimineum; Soil carbon; Soil carbon fractions; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL GRASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; EXOTIC SPECIES; JAPANESE STILTGRASS; MICROSTEGIUM VIMINEUM; SOIL CARBON; SOIL CARBON FRACTIONS; STABLE ISOTOPES;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ECOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LAKES;

SOILS;

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; FOREST SOIL; GRASS; INVASIVE SPECIES; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL CARBON; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUCCESSION; UNDERSTORY;

MICROSTEGIUM; MICROSTEGIUM VIMINEUM;

EID: 78650676662     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.10.006     Document Type: Article

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