Nitrogen recoveries from organic amendments in crop and soil assessed by isotope techniques under tropical field conditions

Plant and Soil

Volumn 341, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 179-192

  Douxchamps, Sabine ^a   Frossard, Emmanuel ^a   Bernasconi, Stefano M ^b   van der Hoek, Rein ^c   Schmidt, Axel ^c   Rao, Idupulapati M ^d   Oberson, Astrid ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical CIAT   (Nicaragua)

^d INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

Author keywords

15N; Canavalia brasiliensis; Indirect and direct labelling techniques; Microplot study; Organic amendments

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CROP RESIDUE; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FIELDWORK; GROWING SEASON; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LEGUME; MAIZE; MANURE; MINERALIZATION; MIXED FARMING; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION;

NICARAGUA;

CANAVALIA; CANAVALIA BRASILIENSIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79952622112     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-010-0633-6     Document Type: Article

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