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Research article - Peer-reviewed, 1995

Response of Soil Aggregate Stability to Manure Amendments in the Ultuna Long-Term Soil Organic Matter Experiment

Gerzabek, Martin; Kirchmann, Holger; Pichlmayer, Fritz

Abstract

Soil aggregate stability (SAS) showed a clear response to soil management. SAS increased in following order: bare fallow < no-N < green manure < peat less than or equal to farmyard manure. Humus contents of the plots had a significant impact on SAS. Incfeasing C-org-contents generally enhanced aggregation. However, the unfavourably high C/N ratio of peat treatments and the resulting small size of microbial biomass led to a distinctly lower positive influence of accumulated soil organic matter in case of peat additions.

Published in

Zeitschrift fur Pflanzenernahrung und Bodenkunde
1995, volume: 158, number: 3, pages: 257-260
Publisher: VCH PUBLISHERS INC

Authors' information

Gerzabek, Martin
Austrian Research Centers (ARC)
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Soil Sciences
Pichlmayer, Fritz
Austrian Research Centers (ARC)

UKÄ Subject classification

Agricultural Science
Soil Science

Publication Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.19951580308

URI (permanent link to this page)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/44226