Fine-scale spatial distribution of soil organic carbon and its fractions after afforestation with Pinus sylvestris and Salix psammophila in a semiarid desert of China

Lan, ZL; Zhang, SL; Sial, TA; Wu, LY; Chang, WQ; Li, X; Zhang, JG; Fan, JL

Zhang, JG (通讯作者),Northwest A&F Univ, Coll Nat Resources & Environm, Key Lab Plant Nutr & Agrienvironm Northwest China, Minist Agr, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, Peoples R China.;Zhang, JG (通讯作者),Northwest A&F Univ, State Key Lab Soil Eros & Dryland Farming Loess P, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, Peoples R China.;Zhang, JG (通讯作者),Chinese Acad Sci, Xinjiang Inst Ecol & Geog, Taklimakan Desert Res Stn, Korla 841000, Peoples R China.

JOURNAL OF PLANT ECOLOGY, 2022; 15 (1): 141

Abstract

Afforestation is helpful to improve soil functions and increase soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration in semiarid deserts. However, the fine-scale (......

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