Soil organic and inorganic carbon contents under various land uses across a transect of continental steppes in Inner Mongolia

Catena

Volumn 109, Issue , 2013, Pages 110-117

  Wang, Zhi Ping ^a,b   Han, Xing Guo ^a,c   Chang, Scott X ^b   Wang, Bin ^a   Yu, Qiang ^c   Hou, Long Yu ^a   Li, Ling Hao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Land cultivation; Northern China; Particle size fraction; Soil layer; Spatial distribution; Temperate grassland

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CULTIVATION; GRASSLAND; LAND MANAGEMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL TEXTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STEPPE; TRANSECT;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 84879196171     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2013.04.008     Document Type: Article

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