Responses of carbon transfer, partitioning, and residence time to land use in the plant–soil system of an alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Biology and Fertility of Soils

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 781-790

  Zhao, Liang ^a   Chen, Dongdong ^a   Zhao, Na ^a   Li, Qi ^a   Cheng, Qian ^b   Luo, Caiyun ^a   Xu, Shixiao ^a   Wang, Shiping ^c   Zhao, Xinquan ^a  

^a NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

^b QINGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

13C pulse labeling; Alpine meadow; Carbon transfer; Land use; Qinghai Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON FLUX; GRASS; GRAZING; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; MEADOW; MONOCULTURE; PARTITIONING; PASTURE; RESIDENCE TIME; ROOT-SHOOT RATIO; SOIL CARBON; SOIL RESPIRATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

AVENA SATIVA; ELYMUS NUTANS;

EID: 84941936359     PISSN: 01782762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00374-015-1024-1     Document Type: Article

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