Soil organisms and carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus mineralisation in Norway spruce and mixed Norway spruce - Birch stands

Biology and Fertility of Soils

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 382-388

  Saetre, Peter ^a,b   Brandtberg, P O ^a   Lundkvist, Heléne ^a   Bengtsson, Jan ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C, N and P mineralisation; Microbial biomass; Microbial respiration; Mixed species stands; Soil fauna

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; MICROBE RESPIRATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MINERALIZATION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL; SWEDEN;

BIOTA; MINERALIZATION; SOIL;

BETULA PENDULA; BETULA PUBESCENS; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 0033064719     PISSN: 01782762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003740050508     Document Type: Article

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