Spatial heterogeneity of soil moisture, microbial biomass carbon and soil respiration at stand scale of an arid scrubland

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3217-3224

  Wang, Yu gang ^a   Zhu, Hong ^a   Li, Yan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Desert vegetation; Scrubland; Spatial autocorrelation; Spatial variance; Variation coefficient

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROBIAL BIOMASS CARBON; SCRUBLAND; SOIL MICROBIAL BIOMASS CARBONS; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPATIAL VARIANCE; VARIATION COEFFICIENT;

ARID REGIONS; AUTOCORRELATION; BIOMASS; CARBON; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ARID REGION; AUTOCORRELATION; BIOMASS; DESERT SOIL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HETEROGENEITY; SCRUB; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL RESPIRATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; VEGETABLE OIL; VEGETATION;

CHINA; SANGONG BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84888028310     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-013-2386-z     Document Type: Article

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