Comparing Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics in Perennial Grasses and Shrubs in a Saline-Alkaline Arid Region, Northwestern China

Yong Zhou; Zhiqin Pei; Jiaqi Su; Jingli Zhang; Yuanrun Zheng; Jian Ni; Chunwang Xiao; Renzhong Wang

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0042927

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Comparing Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics in Perennial Grasses and Shrubs in a Saline-Alkaline Arid Region, Northwestern China

Yong Zhou ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong Zhou, Zhiqin Pei

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Zhiqin Pei ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong Zhou, Zhiqin Pei

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Jiaqi Su,

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Jingli Zhang,

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Yuanrun Zheng,

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Jian Ni,

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Chunwang Xiao ,

* E-mail: cwxiao@ibcas.ac.cn (CX); wangrz@ibcas.ac.cn (RW)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Renzhong Wang

* E-mail: cwxiao@ibcas.ac.cn (CX); wangrz@ibcas.ac.cn (RW)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Comparing Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics in Perennial Grasses and Shrubs in a Saline-Alkaline Arid Region, Northwestern China

Yong Zhou,
Zhiqin Pei,
Jiaqi Su,
Jingli Zhang,
Yuanrun Zheng,
Jian Ni,
Chunwang Xiao,
Renzhong Wang

Published: August 10, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042927

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