Response of long-, medium- and short-term processes of the carbon budget to overgrazing-induced crusts in the Tibetan Plateau

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 111, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 187-201

  Unteregelsbacher, Sebastian ^a   Hafner, Silke ^a   Guggenberger, Georg ^b   Miehe, Georg ^c   Xu, Xingliang ^d   Liu, Jianquan ^e   Kuzyakov, Yakov ^a,d,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^e NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Kobresia pasture; Land use changes; Overgrazing; Root exudates; Soil organic carbon; Soil respiration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON CYCLE; CRUST; GRASSLAND; OVERGRAZING; PASTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

ANIMALIA; CHLOROPHYTA; KOBRESIA;

EID: 84873150187     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: 1573515X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-011-9632-9     Document Type: Article

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