Soil sulfur cycling in temperate agricultural systems

Sulfur: A Missing Link between Soils, Crops, and Nutrition

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 25-44

  Eriksen, Jørgen ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Agricultural soils; Gross sulfur mineralization; Microbial biomass sulfur; Molecular weight fractionation; Norganic sulfur fertilizer; Organic sulfur pools; Soil sulfur cycling; Sulphatase enzymes; Temperate agricultural systems; X ray adsorption near edge structure spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85103043794     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/agronmonogr50.c3     Document Type: Chapter

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