Correlation among microbial biomass s, soil properties, and other biomass nutrients

Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 175-186

  Chowdhury, Md Akhter Hossain ^a   Kouno, Kenji ^a   Ando, Tadao ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Correlation; Microbial biomass N; Microbial biomass S; S flux; Soil properties

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345472080     PISSN: 00380768     EISSN: 17470765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00380768.1999.10409333     Document Type: Article

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