Soil organic fractions in cultivated and uncultivated Ferralsols in Uganda

Geoderma Regional

Volumn 4, Issue , 2015, Pages 108-113

  Musinguzi, Patrick ^a   Tenywa, John Stephen ^a   Ebanyat, Peter ^a   Basamba, Twaha Ali ^a   Tenywa, Moses Makooma ^a   Mubiru, Drake N ^b   Zinn, Yuri L ^c  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b National Agricultural Research Laboratories Kawanda   (Uganda)

^c Department of Soil Science Federal University of Lavras Campus ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Nitrogen; Particle size fractionation; Soil organic carbon; Tropical soils

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923115567     PISSN: 23520094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geodrs.2015.01.003     Document Type: Article

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