Increase in soil stable carbon isotope ratio relates to loss of organic carbon: results from five long-term bare fallow experiments

Oecologia

Volumn 177, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 811-821

  Menichetti, Lorenzo ^a   Houot, Sabine ^b   van Oort, Folkert ^c   Kätterer, Thomas ^a   Christensen, Bent T ^d   Chenu, Claire ^e   Barré, Pierre ^f   Vasilyeva, Nadezda A ^e,g   Ekblad, Alf ^h  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

^f LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

^g NORTH EASTERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^h ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Isotope fractionation; Natural abundance; Rayleigh distillation; Soil organic carbon; Stable carbon isotope ratio

Indexed keywords

CARBON; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; CROP; KINETICS; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPES; CLIMATE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; KINETICS; SOIL;

EID: 84925486079     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: 14321939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-3114-4     Document Type: Article

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