Impacts of dung combustion on the carbon cycle of alpine grassland of the north tibetan plateau

Environmental Management

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 441-449

  Xu, Zengrang ^a   Cheng, Shengkui ^a   Zhen, Lin ^a   Pan, Ying ^a   Zhang, Xianzhou ^a   Wu, Junxi ^a   Zou, Xiuping ^b   Bijaya, G C Dhruba ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Science   (China)

Author keywords

Alpine grassland ecosystem; Carbon budget; Dung; Grazing; Renewable energy; Tibet

Indexed keywords

ALPINE GRASSLANDS; CARBON BUDGETS; DUNG; GRAZING; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; TIBET;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMBUSTION; SOILS; SOLAR ENERGY; SURVEYS; VEGETATION;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIOFUEL; CARBON;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COMBUSTION; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ENERGY RESOURCE; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOIL ECOSYSTEM;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BIOME; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON STORAGE; CHINA; COMBUSTION; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; GROWING SEASON; HOUSEHOLD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RENEWABLE ENERGY; SOIL CHEMISTRY; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CATTLE; EATING; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; HUMANS; MANURE; POACEAE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOIL; TIBET;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84880790580     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-013-0107-8     Document Type: Article

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