Impact of residue quality on the C and N mineralization of leaf and root residues of three agroforestry species

Plant and Soil

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 221-231

  Vanlauwe, B ^a,b,c   Nwoke, O C ^a,b   Sanginga, N ^a,b   Merckx, R ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

^b c/o L W Lambourn and Co ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

15N labeled residues; Dactyladenia barteri; Flemingia macrophylla; Leucaena leucocephala; lignin; N immobilization; polyphenols

Indexed keywords

DACTYLADENIA; DACTYLADENIA BARTERI; FLEMINGIA; FLEMINGIA MACROPHYLLA; LEUCAENA; LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA; LEUCOCEPHALA;

EID: 0030463956     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00011437     Document Type: Article

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