Published online 29 September 2005
Published in Soil Sci Soc Am J 69:1746-1756 (2005)
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2005.0020
© 2005 Soil Science Society of America
677 S. Segoe Rd., Madison, WI 53711 USA
Soil Organic Carbon Composition in a Northern Mixed-Grass Prairie
Effects of Grazing
Girisha K. Ganjeguntea,
George F. Vancea,*,
Caroline M. Prestonb,
Gerald E. Schumanc,
Lachlan J. Ingrama,
Peter D. Stahla and
Jeffrey M. Welkerd
a Dep. of Renewable Resources, 1000 E. University Ave., Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071-3354
b Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Pacific Forestry Centre, 506 West Burnside Rd., Victoria BC, Canada V8Z 1M5
c USDA-ARS, High Plains Grasslands Research Station, Rangeland Resource Research Unit, 8408 Hildreth Rd., Cheyenne, WY 82009
d Environment and Natural Resource Institute, Univ. of Alaska, 3211 Providence Dr., Anchorage, AK 99508

View larger version (32K):
[in a new window]
|
Fig. 1. Concentrations of phenylpropanoid moieties (mg kg1 soil) in soils under three grazing treatments at the High Plains Grasslands Research Station, Cheyenne, WY.
|
|

View larger version (21K):
[in a new window]
|
Fig. 2. Concentrations of phenylpropanoid moieties (g VSC kg1 humic acid C or fulvic acid C) in humic acids and/or fulvic acid under three grazing treatments at the High Plains Grasslands Research Station, Cheyenne, WY.
|
|

View larger version (33K):
[in a new window]
|
Fig. 3. Carbon-13 cross polarization magic angle spin nuclear magnetic resolution (13C CPMAS NMR) spectra of humic and fulvic acid extracted from three grazing treatments at the High Plains Grasslands Research Station, Cheyenne, WY.
|
|

View larger version (17K):
[in a new window]
|
Fig. 4. Dipolar dephasing carbon-13 cross polarization magic angle spin nuclear magnetic resolution (13C CPMAS NMR) spectra of humic and fulvic acids extracted from three grazing treatments (one of each replicate) at the High Plains Grasslands Research Station, Cheyenne, WY.
|
|
Copyright © 2005 by the Soil Science Society of America.