Responses of soil microbial processes and community structure to tillage events and implications for soil quality

Geoderma

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 305-317

  Jackson, L E ^a   Calderon, F J ^b   Steenwerth, K L ^a   Scow, K M ^a   Rolston, D E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide flux; Denitrification; Nitrate; Nitrogen mineralization; Phospholipid fatty acid analysis

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DENITRIFICATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINERALIZATION; NITRATE; SOIL QUALITY; TILLAGE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038138132     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7061(03)00046-6     Document Type: Article

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