Failure of an iterative curve-fitting procedure to successfully estimate two organic N pools

Plant and Soil

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 121-128

  Dendooven, L ^a,b   Merckx, R ^a   Verstraeten, L M J ^a   Vlassak, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Aerobic incubation; C and N mineralization; Crop residues; Soil organic matter pools; Stanford and Smith

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030853195     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004252929840     Document Type: Article

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