Temperature Sensitivity of Soil Organic Carbon Mineralization along an Elevation Gradient in the Wuyi Mountains, China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Guobing ^a   Zhou, Yan ^b   Xu, Xia ^c   Ruan, Honghua ^a   Wang, Jiashe ^d  

^a NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Nanning City Planning and Administration Bureau   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d Administrative Bureau of Wuyishan National Nature Reserve   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC CARBON;

ALPINE MEADOW; ARTICLE; CARBON CYCLE; CHINA; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVERGREEN BROAD LEAF FOREST; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; MINERALIZATION; MOUNTAIN; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY; SUB ALPINE DWARF FOREST; SURFACE SOIL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ALTITUDE; CARBON; CHINA; MINERALS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84872281860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053914     Document Type: Article

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