The impact of agricultural land use changes on soil organic carbon dynamics in the Danjiangkou Reservoir area of China

Plant and Soil

Volumn 366, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 415-424

  Cheng, Xiaoli ^a   Yang, Yuanhe ^b   Li, Ming ^a   Dou, Xiaolin ^a   Zhang, Quanfa ^a  

^a Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon 13; Land use change; Nitrogen 15; Soil carbon and nitrogen recalcitrance indexes; Soil fractions; Soil organic carbon cycling

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CARBON ISOTOPE; DECOMPOSITION; LAND USE CHANGE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PLANTATION; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SHRUBLAND; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; WOODLAND;

CHINA; DANJIANGKOU RESERVOIR;

EID: 84876434451     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-012-1446-6     Document Type: Article

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