Responses of soil respiration to N addition, burning and clipping in temperate semiarid grassland in northern China

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 166-167, Issue , 2012, Pages 32-40

  Jia, Xiaoxu ^a   Shao, Ming'an ^a,b   Wei, Xiaorong ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

Author keywords

Burning; Clipping; N addition; Semiarid grassland; Soil respiration; Temperature sensitivity

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS BURNING; CARBON CYCLE; CLIPPING; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL RESPIRATION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

CHINA;

EID: 84864800404     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.05.022     Document Type: Article

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