Twenty years of intensive fertilization and competing vegetation suppression in loblolly pine plantations: Impacts on soil C, N, and microbial biomass

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 713-723

  Rifai, Sami W ^a   Markewitz, Daniel ^a   Borders, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CO2 efflux; Fertilization; Herbicide; Microbial biomass; Soil carbon; Soil nitrogen; Soil respiration

Indexed keywords

CUMULATIVE EFFECTS; F TREATMENT; FACTORIAL EXPERIMENT; FOREST FLOORS; FOREST PRODUCTS; GEORGIA; LOBLOLLY PINE PLANTATIONS; LOBLOLLY PINE STANDS; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL BIOMASS C AND N; MINERAL SOILS; N CONTENT; OPERATIONAL PRACTICES; ORGANIC MATTER; PINE VEGETATION; REDUCED SOILS; SAMPLE COLLECTION; SILVICULTURAL TREATMENTS; SOIL CARBON; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL MICROBIAL BIOMASS; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL PH; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL SURFACES; SOIL TYPES; STAND GROWTH; VEGETATION SUPPRESSION;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; HERBICIDES; ROTATION; SOILS; TRACE ELEMENTS; VEGETATION; WEED CONTROL;

SOIL TESTING;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CONIFEROUS TREE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; HERBICIDE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYTOMASS; PLANTATION; SILVICULTURE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL RESPIRATION;

BIOMASS; CARBON; FERTILIZATION; FORESTRY; HERBICIDES; PLANTS; SOIL; TESTING; TRACE ELEMENTS; WEED CONTROL;

GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

PINUS TAEDA;

EID: 77949274589     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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