Impacts of organic matter amendments on carbon and nitrogen dynamics in grassland soils

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 68, Issue , 2014, Pages 52-61

  Ryals, Rebecca ^a,d   Kaiser, Michael ^b,e   Torn, Margaret S ^c   Berhe, Asmeret Asefaw ^b   Silver, Whendee L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Density fractionation; Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform spectroscopy; Grassland ecosystems; Soil amendment

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DENSITY FRACTIONATIONS; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE INFRARED FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROSCOPIES; GRASSLAND ECOSYSTEMS; SOIL AMENDMENT;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON; COASTAL ZONES; COMPOSTING; DIGITAL STORAGE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; LANDFORMS; NITROGEN; REFLECTION;

SOILS;

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATIC REGION; COMPOST; FOURIER TRANSFORM; GRASSLAND SOIL; NITROGEN; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

EID: 84884947773     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.09.011     Document Type: Article

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