Short and medium term plant litter decomposition in a tropical Ultisol elucidated by physical fractionation in a dual 13C and 14C isotope study

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1273-1281

  Magid, J ^a   Cadisch, G ^b   Giller, K E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

13C; 14C; Charcoal; Decomposition; Size and density fractionation; Soil organic matter pools

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; FRACTIONATION; LEAF LITTER; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TROPICAL SOIL; ULTISOL;

BRACHIARIA; LOLIUM; LOLIUM PERENNE;

EID: 0036720550     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-0717(02)00069-X     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Theoretical-analysis of microbial biomass dynamics in soils
2. 13C) and nitrogen mineralization potential of particulate light soil organic matter after rainforest clearing
3. Particulate soil organic-matter changes across a grassland cultivation sequence
4. Physical fractionation of soil and organic matter in primary particles and density separates
5. Forage fibre analyses (apparatus, reagents, procedures and some applications)
6. 13C CP/MAS NMR spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy
7. 13C NMR spectroscopy in density fractions of an oxisol under forest and pasture
8. 2 evokes quantitative and qualitative changes in carbon dynamics in a plant/soil system: Mechanisms and implications
9. Size-density and isotopic fractionation of soil organic matter after forest conversion
10. DAISY - Soil plant atmosphere system model
11. Modelling the turnover of organic matter in long-term experiments at Rothamsted
12. Comparative study of decomposition rates in temperate and tropical regions
13. 14C-labelled plant materials
14. Size-density fractionation for in situ meaurements of rape straw decomposition - An alternative to the litterbag approach?
15. Turnover of root-derived material and related microbial biomass formation in soils of different texture
16. Dynamics of C, N, P and S in grassland soils: A model
17. Disponibilidade e composiçåo da forragem disponivel em pastagens de Brachiaria humidicola (Rendle) Schweickt, em monocultivo ou consorciado corn leguminosas, submetidas a differentes taxas de latoçåo
18. Dynamics of density fractions of macro-organic matter after forest conversion to sugarcane and woodlots, accounted for in a modified CENTURY model
19. Aggregation and soil organic matter accumulation in cultivated and native grassland soils
20. 12C ratios for higher plants
21. A procedure for isolating soil organic matter fractions suitable for modelling
22. Fractionation of organo-mineral complexes by sedimentation and density techniques
23. Alternative kinetic laws to describe the turnover of the microbial biomass