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- Title: Microbial-derived carbon is a major contributor to
rhizosphere soil organic carbon
accumulation in alpine coniferous forests
- Running title: The main resource of rhizosphere SOC
- Type of article: Letter
- Names of authors : Qitong Wang1,2(wangqt@cib.ac.cn), Ziliang Zhang3(ziliangz@illinois.edu), Xiaomin Zhu1(zhuxm@cib.ac.cn), Zhanfeng Liu4 (liuzf@scbg.ac.cn),
Na Li1 (lina@cib.ac.cn), Juan
Xiao5 (xiaojuanhj@163.com), Qing
Liu1 (liuqing@cib.ac.cn), Huajun
Yin1* (yinhj@cib.ac.cn)
- Complete postal address(es) or affiliations :
1 CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological
Restoration and Bioresource Utilization and Ecological Restoration and
Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu
Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China
2 University of Chinese Academy of sciences, Beijing
100049, China
3 Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and
Environment, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL,
61801, USA4 Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and
Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China5 College of Environmental Science and Engineering,
China West Normal University, Nanchong, 637000, China
- Keywords: Rhizosphere; root functional modules; soil organic
carbon; microbial-derived C; plant-derived C;
soil MCP
- Number of words in the abstract: 148
- Number of words in the main text: 4492
- Number of references: 69
- Number of figures: 6
- Number of tables: 0
- Number of text boxes: 0
Full telephone, Fax No. and E-mail address of the
corresponding authors :
*Huajun Yin
Email: yinhj@cib.ac.cn
Tel: +86-028-82890609
Fax: 00-86-28-8289-0288
Statement of authorship: Q.W., Q.L., and H.Y. planned and
designed the research; Q.W., X.Z., and J.X. performed experiments;
Q.W., and N.L. analyzed data; Q.W., and Z.Z. prepared the figures and
wrote the manuscript; Z.L., J.X., and H.Y. funded.
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