Driven by Nature: Plant Litter Quality and Decomposition

by Ken E Giller and Georg Cadisch

Biological management of nutrient supply to plants is intrinsically more complex than the provision of nutrients as inorganic fertilizers. We need to know whether the nutrients released are retained or lost from the system, whether rates of decomposition can be manipulated to improve nutrient use efficiency, and how the various fractions of plant residues translate into pools of organic matter in soil. Only then can predictive models for nutrient...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851991459
• ISBN13: 9780851991450
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Cabi
• Length: 432 Pages