Soil-Litter Mixing Accelerates Decomposition in a Chihuahuan Desert Grassland

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• litter 65%
• desert 58%
• grassland 57%
• decomposition 50%
• grass 33%
• soil 29%
• vegetation structure 18%
• loss 16%
• photodegradation 9%
• nutrient cycling 8%
• livestock 7%
• shrub 7%
• grazing 6%
• lipid 6%
• monsoon 6%
• radiation 5%
• rate 5%
• summer 4%
• carbon 4%
• climate 4%
• removal 4%
• prediction 3%

Agriculture & Biology

• Chihuahuan Desert 100%
• grasslands 60%
• degradation 42%
• soil 35%
• grasses 28%
• arid lands 25%
• vegetation structure 18%
• mechanistic models 9%
• photolysis 9%
• statistical models 9%
• biogeochemical cycles 8%
• lipid composition 8%
• ultraviolet radiation 6%
• shrubs 6%
• grazing 6%
• livestock 6%
• deterioration 6%
• climate 6%
• prediction 5%
• summer 5%
• carbon 5%

Chemical Compounds

• Decomposition 44%
• UV Radiation 9%
• Nutrient 8%
• Photodegradation 7%
• Lipid 5%
• Carbon Atom 3%
• Reduction 3%
• Time 2%