Seasonal responses of soil respiration to warming and nitrogen addition in a semi-arid alfalfa-pasture of the Loess Plateau, China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 590-591, Issue , 2017, Pages 729-738

  Fang, Chao ^a   Ye, Jian sheng ^a   Gong, Yanhong ^a   Pei, Jiuying ^a   Yuan, Ziqiang ^b   Xie, Chan ^a   Zhu, Yusi ^a   Yu, Yueyuan ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Loess Plateau; Nitrogen addition; Q10; Semi arid grassland; Soil respiration; Warming

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITION; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENTS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS;

LOESS PLATEAU; NITROGEN ADDITIONS; SEMI-ARID GRASSLANDS; SOIL RESPIRATION; WARMING;

NITROGEN;

NITROGEN; PASTURE; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL RESPIRATION; WARMING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALFALFA; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE TRANSPORT; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVAPORATION; GROWING SEASON; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; NONHUMAN; PASTURE; PRECIPITATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIARID CLIMATE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL WATER CONTENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VEGETATION; WARMING;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

MEDICAGO SATIVA;

EID: 85014749650     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.03.034     Document Type: Article

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