Response of soil microbial biomass to short-term experimental warming in alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 61, Issue , 2012, Pages 158-160

  Fu, Gang ^a,b   Shen, Zhenxi ^a   Zhang, Xianzhou ^a   Zhou, Yuting ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

MBC; MBC MBN ratio; MBN; Open top chamber; Passive warming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864134658     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2012.05.002     Document Type: Article

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