Topsoil organic carbon storage and its changes in Inner Mongolia grassland from the 1980s to 2010s

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1651-1660

  Dai, Erfu ^a   Zhai, Ruixue ^a,b   Ge, Quansheng ^a   Wu, Xiuqin ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Inner; Mongolia grassland; Organic carbon storage; Regional differences; Surface soil

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; ORGANIC CARBON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SOIL SURVEY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TOPSOIL; VEGETATION TYPE;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 84920273922     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11821/dlxb201411006     Document Type: Article

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