Invasion of non-native grasses causes a drop in soil carbon storage in California grasslands

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Koteen, Laura E ^a,b   Baldocchi, Dennis D ^b   Harte, John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

California; carbon cycle; global climate change; grassland; land cover change; plant strategies; rooting depth; species invasion

Indexed keywords

EID: 81355151019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/044001     Document Type: Article

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