Relative availability of inorganic N-pools shifts under land use change: An unexplored variable in soil carbon dynamics

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 64, Issue , 2016, Pages 228-236

  Srivastava, Pratap ^a   Singh, Praveen Kumar ^a   Singh, Rishikesh ^a   Bhadouria, Rahul ^a   Singh, Dharmendra Kumar ^a   Singh, Shivam ^a   Afreen, Talat ^a   Tripathi, Sacchidanand ^b   Singh, Pardeep ^c   Singh, Hema ^a   Raghubanshi, Akhilesh Singh ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Carbon management index; Dry tropical ecosystem; Macro aggregate stability; Sequestration; Soil ammonium N:nitrate N ratio

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMICAL STABILITY; CLIMATE MODELS; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; NITRATES; ORGANIC CARBON; SOILS; TROPICS; VEGETATION;

AGGREGATE STABILITY; AMMONIUM-N; CARBON MANAGEMENT INDICES; SEQUESTRATION; TROPICAL ECOSYSTEMS;

LAND USE;

AMMONIUM; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; INORGANIC NITROGEN; LAND USE CHANGE; MACROAGGREGATE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRATE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; ORGANIC CARBON; SECONDARY FOREST; SOIL CARBON; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84954285017     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.12.043     Document Type: Article

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