Microbial biomass acts as a source of plant nutrients in dry tropical forest and savanna

Nature

Volumn 338, Issue 6215, 1989, Pages 499-500

  Singh, J S ^a   Raghubanshi, A S ^a   Singh, R S ^a   Srivastava, S C ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FOREST; MICROBIAL; NUTRIENTS; SAVANNA; TROPICAL;

EID: 0024528212     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/338499a0     Document Type: Article

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