Grazing decreased soil organic carbon by decreasing aboveground biomass in a desert steppe in Inner Mongolia
Yuehua Wang, Zhongwu Wang, Haigang Li, Tingting Shen, Xin Zhang, Jiangwen Li, Guodong Han
Topics & Concepts
Soil carbonEnvironmental scienceGrazingCarbon sequestrationSteppeAgronomyStockingBiomass (ecology)Carbon sinkSoil respirationStipaTotal organic carbonEcosystemAgroforestrySoil waterEcologySoil scienceCarbon dioxideForestryGeographyBiologySoil Carbon and Nitrogen DynamicsPeatlands and Wetlands EcologySoil erosion and sediment transport