Soil erosion affects variations of soil organic carbon and soil respiration along a slope in Northeast China

• Published in: Ecological processes Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 1 - 10
• Main Authors: Li, Tong, Zhang, Haicheng, Wang, Xiaoyuan, Cheng, Shulan, Fang, Huajun, Liu, Gang, Yuan, Wenping
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 02.08.2019; Springer Nature B.V; Springer; SpringerOpen
• Subjects: Agricultural land; Caesium; Caesium 137; Carbon; Carbon cycle; Carbon dioxide; Cesium 137; Cesium isotopes; Cesium radioisotopes; China; Continental interfaces, environment; Earth and Environmental Science; Environment; landscapes; microaggregates; Mineralization; Ocean, Atmosphere; Organic carbon; Profiles; Respiration; Sciences of the Universe; Sloping farmland; Soil aggregates; Soil dynamics; Soil erosion; Soil improvement; Soil organic carbon; Soil profiles; Soil properties; Soil respiration; Soil stabilization; Soil surfaces; Soils; Stabilization; subsoil; Subsoils; Topsoil; Water depth; China; Soil erosion; Soil respiration; Soil organic carbon; Sloping farmland

Background Although soil erosion plays a key role in the carbon cycle, a holistic and mechanistic understanding of the soil erosion process within the cycle is still lacking. The aim of this study was therefore to improve our mechanistic understanding of soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil respiratio...