Microbial Biomass Changes during Decomposition of Plant Residues in a Lixisol

Autor: Kachaka, SK., Merckx, R., Vlassak, K.
Jazyk: English<br />French
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Tropicultura, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 28-30 (2003)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0771-3312
Popis: A lixisol was amended with four different alley cropping species: Senna siamea, Leucaena leucocephala, Dactyladenia barteri and Flemingia macrophylla. Soil samples were incubated for 140 days at 25 °C and the soil microbial biomass was determined by the ninhydrin extraction method along the incubation period. The soil microbial biomass values ranged between 80 and 600 mg.kg-1 and followed, in all cases, the decreasing order: Leucaena> Senna> Flemingia> Dactyladenia.
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