Land Use and Precipitation Affect Organic and Microbial Carbon Stocks and the Specific Metabolic Quotient in Soils of Eleven Ecosystems of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 592-602

  Pabst, Holger ^a   Gerschlauer, Friederike ^b   Kiese, Ralf ^b   Kuzyakov, Yakov ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cmic:Corg; Elevation; Land use; Precipitation; Soil microbes; Soil respiration

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; METABOLISM; ORGANIC CARBON; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEMS; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; DIFFERENT WATER CONTENTS; ELEVATION; LAND USE AND MANAGEMENTS; SOIL MICROBES; SOIL RESPIRATION; SUBSTRATE AVAILABILITIES;

LAND USE;

LAND USE; LAND USE CHANGE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; METABOLISM; MOUNTAIN REGION; ORGANIC CARBON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL BIOTA; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL RESPIRATION; WATER CONTENT;

KILIMANJARO [KILIMANJARO (RGA)]; KILIMANJARO [TANZANIA]; TANZANIA;

EID: 84939246188     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2406     Document Type: Article

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