Soil carbon fractions and biological activity based indices can be used to study the impact of land management and ecological successions

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 84, Issue , 2018, Pages 96-105

  de Moraes Sá, João Carlos ^a   Potma Gonçalves, Daniel Ruiz ^a   Ferreira, Lucimara Aparecida ^a   Mishra, Umakant ^b   Inagaki, Thiago Massao ^c   Ferreira Furlan, Flavia Juliana ^a   Moro, Rosemeri Segecin ^a   Floriani, Nicolas ^a   Briedis, Clever ^d   de Oliveira Ferreira, Ademir ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF PONTA GROSSA   (Brazil)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Carbon storage; Enzyme activity; Land use change; SOC pools

Indexed keywords

BIOACTIVITY; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYMES; FORESTRY; LAKES; LAND USE; ORGANIC CARBON; RECOVERY; VEGETATION;

CARBON MANAGEMENT INDICES; CARBON STORAGE; INFLUENCE OF VEGETATIONS; LAND-USE CHANGE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; SOIL QUALITY INDICATORS; VEGETATION REGENERATION;

SOILS;

EUCALYPTUS; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 85028453122     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.08.029     Document Type: Article

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