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Changes of Soil Enzyme Activities in the Process of Karst Forest Degradation in Southwest China

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Molecular Environmental Soil Science at the Interfaces in the Earth’s Critical Zone

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Sample plots (15 m × 20 m) were set up in the karst areas in Guizhou Province with an attempt to reveal the changes of soil enzyme activities under karst forest degradation. The results showed that the extent of degradation of plant communities was enhanced leading to the clayification of soil, the drastic decrease in SOM contents, and the reduction of soil nutrients available for plants. The urease activities, peroxidase activities and alkaline phosphatase activities of the soils had also decreased significantly.

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  1. Institute of Environment and Resources, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, China

    Fang Liu, Yuansheng Liu & Jian Long

  2. Key Laboratory of Environment Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, 550002, China

    Fang Liu, Shijie Wang & Xiuming Liu

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  1. College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310029, China

    Jianming Xu

  2. Department of Soil Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5A8, Canada

    Pan Ming Huang

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Liu, F., Wang, S., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Long, J. (2010). Changes of Soil Enzyme Activities in the Process of Karst Forest Degradation in Southwest China. In: Xu, J., Huang, P.M. (eds) Molecular Environmental Soil Science at the Interfaces in the Earth’s Critical Zone. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05297-2_94

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