Short-term grazing exclusion has no impact on soil properties and nutrients of degraded alpine grassland in Tibet, China

Solid Earth

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1195-1205

  Lu, X ^a   Yan, Y ^a   Sun, J ^b   Zhang, X ^c   Chen, Y ^a   Wang, X ^a   Cheng, G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CARBON; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOSPHORUS; RESTORATION;

ALPINE GRASSLANDS; AVAILABLE NITROGEN; AVAILABLE PHOSPHORUS; CLIMATE CONDITION; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; SOIL BULK DENSITY; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL TOTAL NITROGEN;

SOILS;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; GRASSLAND; GRAZING PRESSURE; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL QUALITY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

EID: 84946574893     PISSN: 18699510     EISSN: 18699529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/se-6-1195-2015     Document Type: Article

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