Soil fauna increase nitrogen loss in tilled soil with legume but reduce nitrogen loss in non-tilled soil without legume

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 60, Issue , 2013, Pages 105-112

  Toyota, Ayu ^a   HynŠt, Jaroslav ^a,c   Cajthaml, Tomáš ^b   Frouz, Jan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOIL BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b Environmental Centre   (Czech Republic)

^c MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Decomposer; Ecosystem function; Legume; Nitrogen; Production

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSERS; DEFAUNATED; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; LEGUME; LOTUS CORNICULATUS; MACROFAUNA; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; MICROCOSM EXPERIMENTS; N DYNAMICS; N LOSS; NITROGEN LOSS; PLANT BIOMASS; SOIL FAUNA; TILLED SOILS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BIOMASS; LEACHING; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NITROGEN; PRODUCTION;

SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; BIOMASS; DECOMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; LEGUME; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROCOSM; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENCY; RESPIRATION; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL FAUNA; TILLAGE;

EID: 84874428885     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.01.017     Document Type: Article

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