Light and heavy fractions of soil organic matter in response to climate warming and increased precipitation in a temperate steppe

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Song, Bing ^a,b   Niu, Shuli ^a   Zhang, Zhe ^a,b   Yang, Haijun ^a,b   Li, Linghao ^a   Wan, Shiqiang ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC NITROGEN; RAIN; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARBON; NITROGEN;

ABIOTIC STRESS; ARTICLE; BIOTIC STRESS; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; PRODUCTIVITY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL HEAVY FRACTION; SOIL LIGHT FRACTION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL TEMPERATURE; STEPPE; BIOMASS; DESERT CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN CYCLE; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE; RAIN; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84859132980     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033217     Document Type: Article

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