Soil-litter mixing promotes decomposition and soil aggregate formation on contrasting geomorphic surfaces in a shrub-invaded Sonoran Desert grassland

Agriculture & Biology

• Sonoran Desert 100%
• soil aggregates 91%
• grasslands 61%
• shrubs 61%
• age of soil 57%
• degradation 43%
• soil 36%
• films (materials) 29%
• grasses 26%
• fluvial soils 19%
• eolian soils 17%
• Prosopis velutina 15%
• geomorphology 13%
• arid grasslands 13%
• soil movement 13%
• carbon sinks 10%
• vegetation structure 10%
• clay soils 10%
• organic carbon 9%
• sandy soils 9%
• plant litter 9%
• clay 8%
• methodology 2%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• soil aggregate 86%
• litter 66%
• shrub 65%
• desert 59%
• grassland 58%
• decomposition 51%
• soil 30%
• grass 18%
• Holocene 8%
• Pleistocene 8%
• plant life 7%
• leaf litter 6%
• vegetation structure 6%
• sandy soil 5%
• geomorphology 5%
• soil surface 4%
• organic carbon 4%
• substrate 3%
• clay 3%
• rate 3%
• modeling 2%
• experiment 2%
• method 1%