Community level physiological profiling as a tool to evaluate compost maturity: A kinetic approach

European Journal of Soil Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 141-148

  Mondini, Claudio ^a   Insam, Heribert ^b  

^a Exp Institute for Plant Nutrition   (Italy)

^b Leopold Franzens Univrrsity   (Austria)

Author keywords

CLPPs; Compost maturity; Kinetic parameters; Microbial communities; Substrate utilization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344153736     PISSN: 11645563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1164-5563(03)00029-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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