Ecosystem carbon storage following different approaches to
grassland restoration in south-eastern Horqin Sandy Land, northern
China
Jiyou Yuan *1, Zhiyun Ouyang 2, Hua
Zheng 2, Yirong Su 3
1School
of Ecology and Environmental Sciences & Yunnan Key Laboratory for
Plateau Mountain Ecology and Restoration of Degraded Environments,
Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650091, China;
2 State Key Lab of Urban and Regional Ecology,
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
3Key Laboratory of Agro-ecological Processes in
Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Changsha, 410125, China
*Corresponding author: E-mail address,
yuanjy@ynu.edu.cn
Running title: The influence of afforestation on ecosystem carbon
sequestration