Soil carbon stocks and quality across intact and degraded alpine wetlands in Zoige, east Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 427-438

  Luan, Junwei ^a,c   Cui, Lijuan ^a   Xiang, Chenghua ^b   Wu, Jianghua ^c   Song, Hongtao ^a   Ma, Qiongfang ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^b SICHUAN ACADEMY OF FORESTRY   (China)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alpine marsh; Dissolved organic carbon (DOC); Meadow; Microbial biomass carbon (MBC); Wetland degradation

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DEGRADATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DRAINAGE; MARSH; MEADOW; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL SURFACE; WETLAND;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SICHUAN; ZOIGE;

EID: 84904413707     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11273-014-9344-8     Document Type: Article

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