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Steppe ecosystems and climate and land-use changes—vulnerability, feedbacks and possibilities for adaptation

Steppe ecosystems and climate and land-use changes—vulnerability, feedbacks and possibilities for... DOI 10.1007/s11104-010-0651-4 EDITORIAL Klaus Butterbach-Bahl & Ingrid Kögel-Knabner & Xingguo Han Received: 11 October 2010 / Accepted: 7 November 2010 / Published online: 8 February 2011 # Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 In temperate zones, grasslands such as steppe cover approximately 20% (~107 km2) of the land surfaces and are widely used as pasture (Graetz 1994). Grassland soils are one of the most significant stocks for organic carbon. The degradation of grasslands due to changes in management, intensification of rangeland use or climate changes may significantly affect biosphere-atmosphere exchange for carbon and nitrogen due to the volatilization and dislocation by erosion of huge amounts of C and N previously stored in the soil (White et al. 2000, Schlesinger et al. Responsible Editor: Hans Lambers. K. Butterbach-Bahl (*) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Garmisch-Partenkirchen D-82467, Germany e-mail: klaus.butterbach-bahl@kit.edu I. Kögel-Knabner Lehrstuhl für Bodenkunde, Department für Ökologie und Ökosystemmanagement, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan für Ernährung, Landnutzung und Umwelt, Technische Universität München, Freising-Weihenstephan D-85350, Germany X. Han State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China 1990, Ojima et al. 1993). This is in turn http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Plant and Soil Springer Journals

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Life Sciences; Plant Physiology; Plant Sciences ; Soil Science & Conservation ; Ecology
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0032-079X
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10.1007/s11104-010-0651-4
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DOI 10.1007/s11104-010-0651-4 EDITORIAL Klaus Butterbach-Bahl & Ingrid Kögel-Knabner & Xingguo Han Received: 11 October 2010 / Accepted: 7 November 2010 / Published online: 8 February 2011 # Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 In temperate zones, grasslands such as steppe cover approximately 20% (~107 km2) of the land surfaces and are widely used as pasture (Graetz 1994). Grassland soils are one of the most significant stocks for organic carbon. The degradation of grasslands due to changes in management, intensification of rangeland use or climate changes may significantly affect biosphere-atmosphere exchange for carbon and nitrogen due to the volatilization and dislocation by erosion of huge amounts of C and N previously stored in the soil (White et al. 2000, Schlesinger et al. Responsible Editor: Hans Lambers. K. Butterbach-Bahl (*) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Garmisch-Partenkirchen D-82467, Germany e-mail: klaus.butterbach-bahl@kit.edu I. Kögel-Knabner Lehrstuhl für Bodenkunde, Department für Ökologie und Ökosystemmanagement, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan für Ernährung, Landnutzung und Umwelt, Technische Universität München, Freising-Weihenstephan D-85350, Germany X. Han State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China 1990, Ojima et al. 1993). This is in turn

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