Organic carbon storage in four ecosystem types in the karst region of southwestern China.

Karst ecosystems are important landscape types that cover about 12% of the world's land area. The role of karst ecosystems in the global carbon cycle remains unclear, due to the lack of an appropriate method for determining the thickness of the solum, a representative sampling of the soil and d...

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Main Authors: Yuguo Liu, Changcheng Liu, Shijie Wang, Ke Guo, Jun Yang, Xinshi Zhang, Guoqing Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3581528?pdf=render