Soil erosion affects variations of soil organic carbon and soil respiration along a slope in Northeast China

Abstract Background Although soil erosion plays a key role in the carbon cycle, a holistic and mechanistic understanding of the soil erosion process within the cycle is still lacking. The aim of this study was therefore to improve our mechanistic understanding of soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil r...

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Main Authors: Tong Li, Haicheng Zhang, Xiaoyuan Wang, Shulan Cheng, Huajun Fang, Gang Liu, Wenping Yuan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-08-01
Series:Ecological Processes
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13717-019-0184-6