Changes in labile soil organic matter fractions following land use change from monocropping to poplar-based agroforestry systems in a semiarid region of Northeast China

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 6845-6853

  Mao, Rong ^a   Zeng, De Hui ^a   Li, Lu Jun ^a   Hu, Ya Lin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Soil fertility; Soil microbial biomass; Soil organic carbon; Soil particulate organic matter; Soil texture

Indexed keywords

PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTERS; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL MICROBIAL BIOMASS; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL TEXTURES;

ARID REGIONS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; LAND USE; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOIL CONDITIONERS; SOILS; TEXTURES;

FORESTRY;

ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

AGROFORESTRY; CROPPING PRACTICE; LAND USE CHANGE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL TEXTURE;

AGROFORESTRY; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLAY; CROPPING SYSTEM; LAND USE; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MONOCROPPING; POPULUS; SANDY LOAM; SEMIARID CLIMATE; SOIL TEXTURE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; NITROGEN; PARTICULATE MATTER; POPULUS; SOIL;

CHINA;

EID: 84867580501     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2462-3     Document Type: Article

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