Effect of Different Leaf Litters on Carbon, Nitrogen and Microbial Activities of Sodic Soils

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1215-1226

  Singh, Kripal ^a,b   Trivedi, Pragya ^b   Singh, Geetu ^b   Singh, Bajrang ^a   Patra, Dharani Dhar ^b  

^a CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b CSIR CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS   (India)

Author keywords

Litter decomposition; Microbial biomass; Prosopis juliflora; Restoration; Soil respiration

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL MOISTURE; TANTALUM; VEHICLES;

LITTER DECOMPOSITION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL BIOMASS CARBON; PROSOPIS JULIFLORA; SOIL MICROBIAL BIOMASS; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL RESPIRATION;

SOILS;

CARBON; LEAF LITTER; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITROGEN; SODIC SOIL; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL RESPIRATION;

ALBIZIA PROCERA; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; ORYZA SATIVA; PROSOPIS JULIFLORA; TERMINALIA ARJUNA;

EID: 85027932733     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2313     Document Type: Article

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