Plant diversity enhances productivity and soil carbon storage

Chen, Shiping; Wang, Wantong; Xu, Wenting; Wang, Yang; Wan, Hongwei; Chen, Dima; Tang, Zhiyao; Tang, Xuli; Zhou, Guoyi; Xie, Zongqiang; Zhou, Daowei; Shangguan, Zhouping; Huang, Jianhui; He, Jin; Wang, Yanfen; Sheng, Jiandong; Tang, Lisong; Li, Xinrong; Dong, Ming; Wu, Yan; Wang, Qiufeng; Wang, Zhiheng; Wu, Jianguo; Stuart Chapin, F.; Bai, Yongfei

doi:10.1073/pnas.1700298114

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Plant diversity enhances productivity and soil carbon storage

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences • Apr 16, 2018

Authors:

Shiping Chen

Wantong Wang

Wenting Xu

Abstract

Despite evidence from experimental grasslands that plant diversity increases biomass production and soil organic carbon (SOC) storage, it remains unclear whether this is true in natural ecosystems, especially under climatic variations and human disturbances. Based on field observations from 6,098 fo...

Subject

Soil carbon

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Environmental science

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