Experimental nitrogen deposition alters the quantity and quality of soil dissolved organic carbon in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-11

  Fang, Huajun ^a   Cheng, Shulan ^b   Yu, Guirui ^a   Xu, Minjie ^b   Wang, Yongsheng ^a   Li, Linsen ^b   Dang, Xusheng ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Li, Yingnian ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Alpine meadow ecosystem; Community level physiological profile (CLPP); Dissolved organic matter (DOM); Excitation emission matrix (EEM); Nitrogen deposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899868826     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2014.04.007     Document Type: Article

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