Soil respiration in different agricultural and natural ecosystems in an arid region.

The variation of different ecosystems on the terrestrial carbon balance is predicted to be large. We investigated a typical arid region with widespread saline/alkaline soils, and evaluated soil respiration of different agricultural and natural ecosystems. Soil respiration for five ecosystems togethe...

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Main Authors: Liming Lai, Xuechun Zhao, Lianhe Jiang, Yongji Wang, Liangguo Luo, Yuanrun Zheng, Xi Chen, Glyn M Rimmington
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3474779?pdf=render