Articles | Volume 14, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2155-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2155-2017
Research article
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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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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 %.
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