Influences of various forms of nitrogen additions on carbon mineralization in natural secondary forests and adjacent larch plantations in Northeast China

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 441-448

  Yang, Kai ^a   Zhu, Jiaojun ^a   Xu, Shuang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon mineralization; Enzyme activity; Nitrogen form; Soil pH; Temperate forest soils

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTS; FORESTRY; MINERALOGY; NITRATES; NITROGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHENOLS;

CARBON MINERALIZATION; NATURAL SECONDARY FORESTS; NITROGEN ADDITIONS; NITROGEN FORM; ORGANIC MATTER DECOMPOSITION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; SOIL PH; TEMPERATE FORESTS;

SOILS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECOMPOSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOREST SOIL; MINERALIZATION; PH; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SECONDARY FOREST; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TEMPERATE FOREST;

CARBON; ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY; GEOCHEMISTRY; NITROGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOIL;

CHINA;

EID: 84899441101     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2013-0485     Document Type: Article

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