Carbon dynamics of soil organic matter in bulk soil and aggregate fraction during secondary succession in a Mediterranean environment

Geoderma

Volumn 193-194, Issue , 2013, Pages 213-221

  Novara, Agata ^a   Gristina, Luciano ^a   La Mantia, Tommaso ^a   Rühl, Juliane ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b EnBioTech srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

C3 C4 and C4 C3 vegetation change; Mediterranean succession; Soil carbon turnover; Stable carbon isotopes

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ABANDONMENTS; BULK SOILS; CARBON DYNAMICS; CHRONOSEQUENCES; LAST STAGE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN SUCCESSION; PHOTOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; PLANT COMMUNITIES; POLYNOMIAL CURVE; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SEMI-ARID ENVIRONMENTS; SOIL AGGREGATE FRACTION; SOIL CARBON TURNOVER; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; STABLE CARBON ISOTOPES; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; VEGETATION CHANGE; VOLCANIC ISLANDS; VOLCANIC SOILS; WOODY PLANTS;

AGGREGATES; CARBON; ISOTOPES; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; VEGETATION;

SOILS;

CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; DATA SET; FRACTIONATION; MATURATION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WOODY PLANT;

ITALY; PANTELLERIA; SICILY; TRAPANI;

HYPARRHENIA HIRTA;

EID: 84869136229     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.08.036     Document Type: Article

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