Soil carbon and nitrogen pools and their relationship to plant and soil dynamics of degraded and artificially restored grasslands of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Geoderma

Volumn 213, Issue , 2014, Pages 178-184

  Li, Yuan Yuan ^a   Dong, Shi Kui ^a   Wen, Lu ^a   Wang, Xue Xia ^a   Wu, Yu ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Artificial grassland; Carbon; Degraded grassland; Nitrogen

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE; ARTIFICIAL GRASSLAND; CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; DEGRADED GRASSLAND; GRASSLAND DEGRADATION; MANAGEMENT INTERVENTIONS; QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU; SOIL PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES;

CARBON; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; RESTORATION; SOIL MECHANICS; VEGETATION;

SOILS;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARTIFICIAL ECOSYSTEM; BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GRASSLAND; GRASSLAND SOIL; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL CARBON; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL DYNAMICS; SOIL NUTRIENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84883797523     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.08.022     Document Type: Article

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