Climate exerts stronger control on topsoil carbon persistence
than plant input in alpine grasslands
Donghai Wu1,*, Xiangtao Xu1,
Haicheng Zhang2
1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
2Department Geoscience, Environment &
Society-BGEOSYS, Université libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
E-mail addresses: Donghai Wu
(dw623@cornell.edu),
Xiangtao Xu
(xx286@cornell.edu), and
Haicheng Zhang
(haicheng.zhang@ulb.be)
Keywords: climate, plant input, priming effect, radiocarbon,
soil carbon turnover, Tibetan Plateau
Type of article: Technical Note; Number of words in the
abstract: 49; Number of words in the main text: 799;Number of references: 11; Number of figures: 2