Recovery of soil organic matter, organic matter turnover and nitrogen cycling in a post-mining forest rehabilitation chronosequence

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2021-2031

  Banning, N C ^a   Grant, C D ^b   Jones, D L ^c   Murphy, D V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b ALCOA INC   (United States)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

15N pool dilution; Carbon; Forest rehabilitation; Metabolic quotient; Microbial quotient; Nitrogen mineralisation; Soil organic matter

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; GARNETS; MINING; NATURAL RESOURCES; NITRATES; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; RECOVERY; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CONCEPTUAL MODELLING; CONTOUR RIPPING; ECOSYSTEM DISTURBANCE; FOREST SOILS; METABOLIC QUOTIENT; MICRO-TOPOGRAPHY; MICROBIAL BIOMASS (MB); MINING OPERATIONS; NITRIFICATION RATES; NITROGEN CYCLING; NUTRIENT CYCLING; ORGANIC MATTER (OM); REHABILITATION (CONSTRUCTION); SOIL NUTRIENT CONTENTS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER (SOM); SOIL PH; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITIES;

SOILS;

BAUXITE; BIOMINERALIZATION; CARBON; CHRONOSEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST SOIL; HETEROGENEITY; METABOLISM; MINING; NITRATE; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PH; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TURNOVER;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS MARGINATA;

EID: 45549099917     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2008.04.010     Document Type: Article

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