Salt-tolerant plant moderates the effect of salinity on soil organic carbon mineralization in a subtropical tidal wetland

Autor: Xin Chen, Min Luo, Ji Tan, Changwei Zhang, Yuxiu Liu, Jiafang Huang, Yang Tan, Leilei Xiao, Zhanghua Xu
Rok vydání: 2022
Předmět:
Zdroj: The Science of the total environment. 837
ISSN: 1879-1026
Popis: Although salinization is widely known to affect cycling of soil carbon (C) in tidal freshwater wetlands, the role of the presence or absence of plants in mediating the responses of soil organic carbon (SOC) mineralization to salinization is poorly understood. In this study, we translocated soils collected from a tidal freshwater wetland to sites with varying salinities along a subtropical estuarine gradient and established unplanted and planted (with the salt-tolerant plant Cyperus malaccensis Lam.) mesocosms at each site. We simultaneously investigated cumulative soil CO
Databáze: OpenAIRE