Does sewage sludge amendment to soil enhance the development of silver birch and scots pine?

Hungarian Geographical Bulletin

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 393-410

  Vaitkute, Dovile ^a   Baltrenaite, Edita ^a   Booth, Colin A ^b   Fullen, Michael A ^b  

^a VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Betula pendula roth; Biomass; Heavy metals; Pinus sylvestris L.; Root shoot ratio; Sewage sludge; Specific root length

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; HEAVY METAL; ROOT SYSTEM; SEWAGE; SHOOT; SLUDGE; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL QUALITY;

BETULA PENDULA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 79551639738     PISSN: 00155403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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