Responses of soil microbial biomass and enzymatic activities to fertilizations of mixed inorganic and organic nitrogen at a subtropical forest in East China

Plant and Soil

Volumn 338, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 355-366

  Guo, Peng ^a   Wang, Congyan ^a   Jia, Yong ^a   Wang, Qian ^a   Han, Guomin ^a   Tian, Xingjun ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Extracellular enzymatic activity; Forest soil; Inorganic nitrogen; Nitrogen deposition; Organic nitrogen; Soil microbial biomass

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOMASS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOREST SOIL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NITROGEN;

CHINA;

EID: 78650391333     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-010-0550-8     Document Type: Article

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