Artificial root exudates and soil organic carbon mineralization in a degraded sandy grassland in northern China

Journal of Arid Land

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 423-431

  Luo, YongQing ^a,b   Zhao, XueYong ^a   Andrén, Olof ^a,c   Zhu, YangChun ^a,b   Huang, WenDa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

artificial root exudates; carbon mineralization; deteriorated grassland ecosystem; Inner Mongolia; pH variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899141135     PISSN: 16746767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40333-014-0063-z     Document Type: Article

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