Microbial activity, organic C accumulation and 13C abundance in soils under alley cropping systems after 9 years of recultivation of quaternary deposits

Biology and Fertility of Soils

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 531-538

  Nii Annang, Seth ^a   Grünewald, Holger ^a,b   Freese, Dirk ^a   Hüttl, Reinhard F ^a,c   Dilly, Oliver ^a,d  

^a BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products   (Germany)

^c National Research Center for Geosciences   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alley cropping; C isotope characteristics; Microbial properties; Organic C and N accumulation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALLEY CROPPING; BIOINDICATOR; DECIDUOUS TREE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ORGANIC NITROGEN; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL RESPIRATION; TRANSITION ZONE;

POPULUS; ROBINIA; ROBINIA PSEUDOACACIA; SECALE CEREALE;

EID: 67349231377     PISSN: 01782762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00374-009-0360-4     Document Type: Article

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