Effect of Enclosure on Soil Carbon, Nitrogen and Phosphorus of Alpine Desert Rangeland

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1166-1177

  Shang, Zhanhuan ^a   Cao, Jingjuan ^a   Guo, Ruiying ^a   Henkin, Zalmen ^b   Ding, Luming ^a   Long, Ruijun ^a   Deng, Bo ^c  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^c CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

biodiversity conservation; carbon sequestration; microbial biomass; soil quality

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; COPYRIGHTS; ENCLOSURES; LANDFORMS; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS; VEGETATION;

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; BIODIVERSITY PROTECTION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ENCLOSURE EXPERIMENTS; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS; SOIL BULK DENSITY; SOIL QUALITY;

SOIL CONSERVATION;

EID: 84894697915     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2283     Document Type: Article

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