Comparing the effect of naturally restored forest and grassland on carbon sequestration and its vertical distribution in the Chinese Loess Plateau

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Wei, Jie ^a,b   Cheng, Jimin ^c   Li, Weijun ^d   Liu, Weiguo ^a,e  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^d Administrative Office of Yunwu Mountain   (China)

^e XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; FOSSIL FUEL; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SOURCE; CARBON STORAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST SOIL; GRASSLAND; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; PLANT ROOT; SOIL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TREE;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT ROOTS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

EID: 84863612641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040123     Document Type: Article

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