Organic matter transformations and soil fertility in a treed pasture in semiarid NE Brazil

Plant and Soil

Volumn 252, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 195-205

  Tiessen, H ^a   Menezes, R S C ^b   Salcedo, I H ^b   Wick, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Umversidade Federal de Pernambuco ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

13 C isotope abundance; C 4 and C 3 metabolism; Cenchrus ciliaris; Prosopis juliflora; Spatial variability map; Spondias tuberosa soil phosphorus; Ziziphus joazeiro

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; ORGANIC MATTER; PASTURE; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL FERTILITY;

BRAZIL;

CENCHRUS; CENCHRUS CILIARIS; PROSOPIS; PROSOPIS JULIFLORA; SPONDIAS; SPONDIAS TUBEROSA; ZIZIPHUS;

EID: 0038041243     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024762501920     Document Type: Article

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