Vegetation influence on organic matter source of black soils from high altitude rocky complexes traced by 13C and 15N isotopic techniques

Catena

Volumn 99, Issue , 2012, Pages 97-101

  Balieiro, Fabiano de Carvalho ^a   Benites, Vinícius de Melo ^a   Caiafa, Alessandra Nasser ^b   Alves, Bruno J Rodrigues ^c   Fontana, Ademir ^a   Canellas, Luciano Pasqualoto ^d  

^a EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RECÔNCAVO DA BAHIA   (Brazil)

^c EMBRAPA AGROBIOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO NORTE FLUMINENSE DARCY RIBEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Altitudinal vegetation; Humic acid; Soil organic matter; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; HUMIC ACID; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; ORGANIC MATTER; PEDOGENESIS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; STABLE ISOTOPE; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION TYPE;

BRAZIL;

EID: 84865549075     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2012.06.004     Document Type: Article

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