Shifting sources of soil labile organic carbon after termination of plant carbon inputs in a subtropical moist forest of southwest China

Ecological Research

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 437-444

  Feng, Wenting ^a,d   Schaefer, Douglas A ^a   Zou, Xiaoming ^b   Zhang, Min ^c  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Girdling; Microbial biomass carbon; Sequential fumigation incubation; Soil labile organic carbon; Trenching; Turnover time

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; DECOMPOSITION; EVERGREEN FOREST; FUMIGATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL RESPIRATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TRENCH; TURNOVER;

CHINA;

EID: 79952745943     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-010-0796-x     Document Type: Article

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