Effects of grazing exclusion on soil properties and on ecosystem carbon and nitrogen storage in a sandy rangeland of Inner Mongolia, Northern China

Environmental Management

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 622-632

  Chen, Yinping ^a   Li, Yuqiang ^b   Zhao, Xueyong ^b   Shang, Wen ^b   Han, Juanjuan ^b   Awada, Tala ^c  

^a LANZHOU JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass and soil; Desertification; Grazing management; Horqin sandy land; Restoration

Indexed keywords

CARBON AND NITROGEN; CATION EXCHANGES; CLAY CONTENT; DESERTIFICATION; GRAZING ANIMALS; GRAZING EXCLUSION; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; GRAZING PRESSURE; HORQIN SANDY LAND; INNER MONGOLIA; KJELDAHL; LIGHT FRACTION; LIGHT FRACTION ORGANIC MATTERS; NORTHERN CHINA; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL QUALITY; WIND EROSIONS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; CARBON; CLIMATOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

SOILS;

CARBON; NITROGEN; POTASSIUM; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DESERTIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; GRAZING PRESSURE; RANGELAND; REVEGETATION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL PROPERTY;

AEOLIAN SEDIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CARBON STORAGE; CATION EXCHANGE; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CLAY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; MONGOLIA; NITROGEN STORAGE; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; QUALITY CONTROL; RANGELAND; SANDY SOIL; SEDIMENT; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL EROSION; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL QUALITY; SOIL SILT; VEGETATION; WIND EROSION;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; CARBON; CHINA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LIVESTOCK; NITROGEN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANTS; SOIL;

CHINA; HORQIN DESERT; NEI MONGGOL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84866561344     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-012-9919-1     Document Type: Article

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