Life at the interface: Above- and below-ground responses of a grazed pasture soil to reforestation

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 100, Issue , 2016, Pages 27-37

  Cavagnaro, T R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Pasture; Phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA); Reforestation; Soil carbon; Soil ecology; Soil microbial community

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960328792     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2015.12.002     Document Type: Article

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