Effects of rodent-induced land degradation on ecosystem carbon fluxes in an alpine meadow in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

Solid Earth

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 303-310

  Peng, F ^a   Quangang, Y ^a   Xue, X ^a   Guo, J ^a   Wang, T ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; SOILS;

ECOSYSTEM RESPIRATION; GROSS ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIONS; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; QINGHAI TIBET PLATEAU; SOIL CHEMICAL PROPERTY; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CARBON SINK; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; LAND DEGRADATION; MEADOW; ORGANIC CARBON; RODENT; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL RESPIRATION;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

RODENTIA;

EID: 84924079111     PISSN: 18699510     EISSN: 18699529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/se-6-303-2015     Document Type: Article

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