Properties of soils in the Swedish long-term fertility experiments: VII. Changes in topsoil and upper subsoil at Örja and Fors after 50 years of nitrogen fertilization and manure application

Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section B: Soil and Plant Science

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 25-36

  Kirchmann, Holger ^a   Schön, Martina ^a   Börjesson, Gunnar ^a   Hamnér, Karin ^a   Kätterer, Thomas ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Microbial biomass; microbial composition; organic farming; soil aggregate stability; soil organic carbon; trace element content

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 84873641263     PISSN: 09064710     EISSN: 16511913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09064710.2012.711352     Document Type: Article

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