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Litter Inputs Promoted Soil Organic Carbon Formation by Increasing Particulate Organic Carbon on the Eastern Edge of

Zhanqing Ma1, Weidi Zhou2, Man Su2

  • 1Minhe Hui and Tu Autonomous County Ecological Environment Monitoring Station, Haidong 810800, China.

Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
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Keywords:
carbon decompositionlitter inputlitter varietysoil labile organic carbon fractions

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