Relationship between soil microbial biomass C and N and mineralizable nitrogen in some arable soils on loess plateau

Pedosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 349-354

  Jianbin, Zhou ^a   Shengxiu, L I ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon, mineralizable n; Nitrogen; Soil microbial biomass

Indexed keywords

EID: 31344456353     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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