Alteration of soil carbon and nitrogen pools and enzyme activities as affected by increased soil coarseness

Wang, Ruzhen; Lü, Linyou; Creamer, Courtney A.; Dijkstra, Feike A.; Liu, Heyong; Feng, Xue; Yu, Guoqing; Han, Xingguo; Jiang, Yong

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2155-2017

Articles | Volume 14, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2155-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2155-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 8

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27 Apr 2017

Research article |

| 27 Apr 2017

Alteration of soil carbon and nitrogen pools and enzyme activities as affected by increased soil coarseness

Ruzhen Wang, Linyou Lü, Courtney A. Creamer, Feike A. Dijkstra, Heyong Liu, Xue Feng, Guoqing Yu, Xingguo Han, and Yong Jiang

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RC1: 'Comments to the ms bg-2016-483v3', Anonymous Referee #1, 13 Dec 2016
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer #1 Comments', Ruzhen Wang, 16 Feb 2017
RC2: 'RC2', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 Dec 2016
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer #2 Comments', Ruzhen Wang, 16 Feb 2017
RC3: 'interesting work', Anonymous Referee #3, 27 Dec 2016
- AC3: 'Response to Reviewer #3 Comments', Ruzhen Wang, 16 Feb 2017
RC4: 'comments to bg-2016-483', Anonymous Referee #4, 12 Jan 2017
- AC4: 'Response to Reviewer #4 Comments', Ruzhen Wang, 16 Feb 2017
RC5: 'Review of manuscript by Ruzhen Wang et al.', Anonymous Referee #5, 12 Jan 2017
- AC5: 'Response to Reviewer #5 Comments', Ruzhen Wang, 16 Feb 2017
AC6: 'Revised manuscript with track changes', Ruzhen Wang, 16 Feb 2017
AC7: 'Supplementary figures', Ruzhen Wang, 16 Feb 2017
EC1: 'Comments to your ms', Yakov Kuzyakov, 16 Feb 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (18 Feb 2017) by Yakov Kuzyakov

AR by Ruzhen Wang on behalf of the Authors (29 Mar 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (29 Mar 2017) by Yakov Kuzyakov

AR by Ruzhen Wang on behalf of the Authors (30 Mar 2017)

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Soil coarseness is one of the principle constrains on terrestrial net primary productivity, ecosystem health, and regional economy. In a semi-arid sandy grassland, we conducted a field experiment to investigate the effect of soil coarseness on soil carbon pools, microbial biomass C, N, and P, and C-, N- and P-cycling enzyme activities of β-glucosidase, N-acetyl-glucosaminidase, and acid phosphomonoesterase by mixing soil with sand in different proportions of 0, 10, 30, 50, and 70 %.