Predominant control of moisture on soil organic carbon mineralization across a broad range of arid and semiarid ecosystems on the Mongolia plateau

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1683-1699

  Mi, Jia ^a   Li, Jianjun ^a   Chen, Dima ^a   Xie, Yichun ^b   Bai, Yongfei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microbial biomass carbon; Precipitation gradient; SOC mineralization; Temperature sensitivity of SOC mineralization; Water filled pore space (WFPS)

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MINERALIZATION; PORE SPACE; RANGELAND; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

MONGOLIAN PLATEAU;

EID: 84942500598     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-014-0040-0     Document Type: Article

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