Effectiveness of wood ash containing charcoal as a fertilizer for a forest plantation in a temperate region

Plant and Soil

Volumn 346, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-78

  Santalla, Martín ^a   Omil, Beatriz ^a   Rodríguez Soalleiro, Roque ^a   Merino, Agustín ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Charcoal; Decomposition; Fertilization; Litterfall; Nitrogen; Nutrient cycling; Phosphorus; Pinus radiata; Tree growth; Wood ash

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE EARTH METAL; BIOMASS; CHARCOAL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONIFEROUS TREE; DECOMPOSITION; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST SOIL; GROWTH; HARVESTING; HYDROXIDE; LITTERFALL; MINERAL; MINERALIZATION; NITROGEN; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHOSPHORUS; PLANTATION FORESTRY; POTASSIUM; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; WOOD ASH;

PINUS RADIATA;

EID: 80051673174     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-011-0794-y     Document Type: Article

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