Soil organic matter within earthworm casts of an anecic-endogeic tropical pasture community, Colombia

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 263-274

  Guggenberger, Georg ^a   Thomas, Richard J ^b   Zech, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b Ctro Internacional de Agric Trop   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Anecic endogeic earthworm community; Earthworm casts: Structural stability; Physical fractionation, chemical characterisation and stabilisation of SOM; Tropical pasture

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000802598     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0929-1393(95)00081-X     Document Type: Article

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