Grasslandification has significant impacts on soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus of alpine wetlands on the Tibetan Plateau

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue , 2013, Pages 170-179

  Shang, Z H ^a,b   Feng, Q S ^a   Wu, G L ^c   Ren, G H ^a   Long, R J ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alpine wetland; Carbon; Grasslandification; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Restoration

Indexed keywords

ALPINE WETLAND; CARBON MANAGEMENT; CHEMICAL PROFILES; ECOLOGICAL PROCESS; GRASSLANDIFICATION; HUMAN DISTURBANCES; NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS; REFERENCE WETLANDS;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RESTORATION; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

WETLANDS;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISTURBANCE; DRAINAGE; DROUGHT; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; LAND USE CHANGE; PASTURE; PH; PHOSPHORUS; REMOTE SENSING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL WATER; WETLAND;

CHINA; GANSU; MAQU; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84880976168     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.06.035     Document Type: Article

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