Mineral Availability as a Key Regulator of Soil Carbon Storage

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 4960-4969

  Yu, Guanghui ^a,d   Xiao, Jian ^a   Hu, Shuijin ^a,b   Polizzotto, Matthew L ^b   Zhao, Fangjie ^a,c   McGrath, Steve P ^c   Li, Huan ^a,b   Ran, Wei ^a   Shen, Qirong ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINS; FORESTRY; ORGANIC MINERALS; SOILS; STABILIZATION;

CARBON STORAGE IN SOILS; MICROCOSM STUDIES; MINERAL AVAILABILITY; MINERAL TRANSFORMATIONS; ORGANIC AMENDMENTS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK LOOP; SHORT-RANGE ORDERED; SOIL CARBON STORAGE;

MINERALS;

CARBON; CITRIC ACID; MINERAL; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHEMICAL BINDING; CITRIC ACID; MICROCOSM; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL CARBON; SOIL COVER; TRANSFORMATION;

ARTICLE; CARBON STORAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; ROOT EXUDATE; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; SOIL; SYNCHROTRON; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; PLANT ROOT; SOIL POLLUTANT;

CARBON; MINERALS; PLANT ROOTS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 85020401298     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b00305     Document Type: Article

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