Sub-tropic degraded red soil restoration: Is soil organic carbon build-up limited by nutrients supply

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 300, Issue , 2013, Pages 77-87

  Gong, Xia ^a   Liu, Yuanqiu ^a   Li, Qinglin ^b   Wei, Xiaohua ^c   Guo, Xiaomin ^a   Niu, Dekui ^a   Zhang, Wenyuan ^a   Zhang, Junxia ^a   Zhang, Lu ^a  

^a JIANGXI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ecosystem restoration; FREP; Nutrients; Red soil degradation; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; EVERGREEN BROAD-LEAVED FORESTS; FREP; RED SOILS; SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON CONTENT; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON SEQUESTRATION;

CONSERVATION; NUTRIENTS; RECOVERY; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION; STOICHIOMETRY;

SOILS;

CLIMAX; CONIFEROUS FOREST; EVERGREEN FOREST; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASSLAND; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; ORGANIC CARBON; RED SOIL; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

CHINA; JIANGXI; TAIHE BASIN;

LIQUIDAMBAR; PINUS ELLIOTTII; PINUS MASSONIANA; SCHIMA;

EID: 84877920938     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.12.002     Document Type: Article

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