Soil carbon mineralization in response to nitrogen enrichment in surface and subsurface layers in two land use types

• Published in: PeerJ (San Francisco, CA) Vol. 7; p. e7130
• Main Authors: Perveen, Nazia, Ayub, Mariam, Shahzad, Tanvir, Siddiq, Muhammad Rashid, Memon, Muhammad Sohail, Barot, Sébastien, Saeed, Hamid, Xu, Ming
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States PeerJ. Ltd 08.07.2019; PeerJ, Inc; PeerJ; PeerJ Inc
• Subjects: Agricultural land; Agricultural Science; Agriculture; Biochemistry; Biology; Biotechnology; C sequestration; Carbon; Climate change; Computer Science; Environmental Impacts; Environmental science; Grasslands; Land use; Land use controls; Land use types; Microbiology; Mineralization; Nitrogen; Nitrogen enrichment; Organic soils; Phenolphthalein; Respiration; Soil c mineralization; Soil carbon; Soil profiles; Soil Science; Soil sciences; Soils; Studies; Subsurface soil C; Lahore Pakistan; Pakistan; China; Loess Plateau; Nitrogen enrichment; Soil c mineralization; Land use types; Subsurface soil C; C sequestration; Subjects Agricultural Science; Soil Science; Microbiology; Environmental Impacts Soil c mineralization

Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition increases N availability in soils, with consequences affecting the decomposition of soil carbon (C). The impacts of increasing N availability on surface soil C dynamics are well studied. However, subsurface soils have been paid less attention although more than 50...