Widespread decreases in topsoil inorganic carbon stocks across China's grasslands during 1980s-2000s

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3672-3680

  Yang, Yuanhe ^a,b,c   Fang, Jingyun ^a,b   Ji, Chengjun ^a   Ma, Wenhong ^d   Mohammat, Anwar ^e   Wang, Shifeng ^c   Wang, Shaopeng ^a   Datta, Arindam ^c   Robinson, David ^c   Smith, Pete ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Climate system feedback; Nitrogen deposition; Soil acidification; Soil inorganic carbon; Soil inventory; Sulfur deposition

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; CARBONATE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; GRASSLAND; INORGANIC CARBON; NITROGEN; SOIL CARBON; SOIL SURVEY; SULFUR; TOPSOIL;

CHINA;

EID: 84868205788     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12025     Document Type: Article

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