Pasture degradation impacts soil phosphorus storage via changes to aggregate-associated soil organic matter in highly weathered tropical soils

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 68, Issue , 2014, Pages 150-157

  Fonte, Steven J ^a   Nesper, Maike ^b   Hegglin, Django ^b   Velásquez, Jaime E ^c   Ramirez, Bertha ^c   Rao, Idupulapati M ^a   Bernasconi, Stefano M ^d   Bünemann, Else K ^b   Frossard, Emmanuel ^b   Oberson, Astrid ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA AMAZONIA   (Colombia)

^d GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amazon Basin; Colombia; Phosphorus; Soil aggregation; Soil organic matter; Tropical pasture

Indexed keywords

AMAZON BASIN; COLOMBIA; SOIL AGGREGATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; TROPICAL PASTURE;

AGGLOMERATION; AGGREGATES; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; FORESTRY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHORUS; TROPICS;

SOILS;

BIOMASS; LAND DEGRADATION; PASTURE; PHOSPHORUS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL STABILIZATION; SOIL STRUCTURE;

AMAZON BASIN; COLOMBIA;

EID: 84885970974     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.09.025     Document Type: Article

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