Short-term and long-term effects of vegetable, fruit and garden waste compost applications in an arable crop rotation in Flanders

Plant and Soil

Volumn 376, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 43-59

  Tits, M ^a   Elsen, A ^a   Bries, J ^a   Vandendriessche, H ^a,b  

^a Soil Service of Belgium   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Compost; Modelling; Nitrogen supply; Soil organic carbon; VFG

Indexed keywords

ARABLE FARMING; COMPOST; CROP ROTATION; CROP YIELD; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FIELD METHOD; LONG-TERM CHANGE; SIMULATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TOPSOIL;

BELGIUM; FLANDERS;

EID: 85028156116     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: 15735036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-012-1318-0     Document Type: Article

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