Soil enzyme activities, microbial community composition and function after 47 years of continuous green manuring

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 610-621

  Elfstrand, Sara ^a   Hedlund, Katarina ^b   Mårtensson, Anna ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biolog; Farmyard manure; Long term field experiment; Organic amendment; Phospholipid fatty acid; Soil C

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 33846149052     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2006.09.011     Document Type: Article

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