Carbon fixation of cyanobacterial-algal crusts after desert fixation and its implication to soil organic carbon accumulation in desert

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 342-349

  Yan Gui, S ^a,b   Xin Rong, L ^b   Ying Wu, C ^c   Zhi Shan, Z ^b   Yan, L ^a  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c HENAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Annual carbon fixation; Biological soil crusts; Cyanobacterial algal crusts; Desert restoration; Photosynthesis; PR China

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SOIL CRUSTS; CARBON FIXATION; CYANOBACTERIAL-ALGAL CRUSTS; NET PHOTOSYNTHETIC RATE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PR CHINAS; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON CONTENT; STEPWISE REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RESTORATION; SOILS; VEHICULAR TUNNELS;

LANDFORMS;

CARBON FIXATION; CHLOROPHYLL; CYANOBACTERIUM; GEOACCUMULATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL CRUST; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

CHINA; TENGGER DESERT;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84880636026     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.1131     Document Type: Article

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