Soil Fertility, Microbial Biomass, and Microbial Functional Diversity Responses to Four Years Fertilization in an Apple Orchard in North China

Soil microbial communities play an essential role in maintaining soil fertility and are considered as ecological indicators to evaluate soil health. In the present study, we examined the influence of almost 4 years of fertilization [no fertilizer (CK), nitrogen alone (N), nitrogen, phosphorus and po...

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Main Authors: Zhanling Zhu, Yan Bai, Minglu Lv, Ge Tian, Xin Zhang, Li Li, Yuanmao Jiang, Shunfeng Ge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2020-07-01
Series:Horticultural Plant Journal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468014120300613