Soil nitrogen-cycling responses to conversion of lowland forests to oil palm and rubber plantations in Sumatra, Indonesia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Allen, Kara ^a   Corre, Marife D ^a   Tjoa, Aiyen ^b   Veldkamp, Edzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b TADULAKO UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN; RUBBER; SOIL;

ARTICLE; CARBON MINERALIZATION; CATION EXCHANGE; CLAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFORESTATION; ELAEIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FOREST; INDONESIA; LAND USE; LOAM SOIL; LOWLAND FOREST; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; NITROGEN CYCLING; NITROGEN MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PLANTATION; RUBBER INDUSTRY; SOIL ACIDITY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHANGE; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL FERTILITY; AGRICULTURE; ARECACEAE; CHEMISTRY; NITROGEN CYCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL; TREE;

AGRICULTURE; ARECACEAE; FORESTS; INDONESIA; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE; RUBBER; SOIL; TREES;

EID: 84941670994     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133325     Document Type: Article

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