Soil-Litter Mixing Accelerates Decomposition in a Chihuahuan Desert Grassland

Ecosystems

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 183-195

  Hewins, Daniel B ^a   Archer, Steven R ^b   Okin, Gregory S ^c   McCulley, Rebecca L ^d   Throop, Heather L ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

arid; carbon cycle; dryland; dust; erosion; livestock grazing; phospholipid fatty acids; Prosopis; shrub encroachment

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; BACTERIUM; CARBON CYCLE; DECOMPOSITION; DESERT; DUST; FATTY ACID; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; LITTER; LIVESTOCK; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PHOSPHOLIPID; PHOTODEGRADATION; SHRUB; SOIL EROSION; SOIL MICROORGANISM; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CHIHUAHUAN DESERT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROSOPIS;

EID: 84874578980     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-012-9604-5     Document Type: Article

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