Calculating microbial carbon and nitrogen transformations in acid forest litter with 15N enrichment and dynamic simulation modelling

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 953-965

  Tietema, Albert ^a   Van Dam, Douwe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; LITTER; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; NITREX; NITROGEN;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 0030176748     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0038-0717(95)00177-8     Document Type: Article

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