Effects of repeated fertilizer and cattle slurry applications over 38 years on N dynamics in a temperate grassland soil

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1362-1371

  Müller, Christoph ^a,b   Laughlin, Ronald J ^c   Christie, Peter ^c   Watson, Catherine J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

15N tracing; Cattle slurry; Gross N transformation; Temperate grassland

Indexed keywords

15N TRACING; ANALYSIS MODELS; ANNUAL RATES; APPLICATION RATES; CATTLE SLURRY; HETEROTROPHIC NITRIFICATION; LONG-TERM EFFECTS; N DYNAMICS; N TRANSFORMATION; N-OXIDATION; OBSERVATION PERIOD; PERMANENT GRASSLAND; POTENTIAL CHANGE; PRODUCTION RATES; SYNTHETIC FERTILIZERS; TEMPERATE GRASSLANDS;

DENITRIFICATION; FERTILIZERS; LAKES; MINERALOGY; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION;

SLURRY PIPELINES;

CATTLE; CROP YIELD; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GRASSLAND SOIL; MINERALIZATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; ORGANIC NITROGEN; SLURRY; SOIL NITROGEN; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TRANSFORMATION;

BOS;

EID: 79954621843     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.03.014     Document Type: Article

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