Effects of Added Organic Matter and Water on Soil Carbon Sequestration in an Arid Region

• Liming Lai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Liming Lai, Yufei Li

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Resource Plants, Beijing Botanical Garden, West China Subalpine Botanical Garden, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing, China

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• Yufei Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Liming Lai, Yufei Li

  Affiliation Institute of RS and GIS, Peking University, Beijing, China

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• Yuan Tian,

  Affiliation Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China

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• Lianhe Jiang,

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

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• Xuechun Zhao,

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Resource Plants, Beijing Botanical Garden, West China Subalpine Botanical Garden, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing, China

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• Linhai Zhu,

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Resource Plants, Beijing Botanical Garden, West China Subalpine Botanical Garden, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing, China

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• Xi Chen,

  Affiliation Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China

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• Yong Gao,

  Affiliation Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China

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• Shaoming Wang,

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecological Agriculture of Xinjiang Bingtuan, Shihezi, Xinjiang, China

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• Yuanrun Zheng ,

  * E-mail: zhengyr@ibcas.ac.cn

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Resource Plants, Beijing Botanical Garden, West China Subalpine Botanical Garden, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing, China

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• Glyn M. Rimmington

  Affiliation Global Learning Office, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, United States of America

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