Effects of species-dominated patches on soil organic carbon and total nitrogen storage in a degraded grassland in China

Background Patchy vegetation is a very common phenomenon due to long-term overgrazing in degraded steppe grasslands, which results in substantial uncertainty associated with soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) dynamics because of changes in the amount of litter accumulation and nutrition input into soi...

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Main Authors: Yujuan Zhang, Shiming Tang, Shu Xie, Kesi Liu, Jinsheng Li, Qian Chen, Ding Huang, Kun Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2019-05-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/6897.pdf