Microbial ecology in tea soils: I. soil properties and microbial populations

Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 317-327

  Pansombat, Kanokpan ^a   Kanazawa, Shinjiro ^a   Horiguchi, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acid soil; Autotrophic nitrifier; Denitrifier; Microbial numbers; Tea soil

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242599734     PISSN: 00380768     EISSN: 17470765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00380768.1997.10414756     Document Type: Article

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