2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co.
KGaA, Weinheim www.
plant-soil.
com
J.
Plant Nutr.
Soil Sci.
2008, 171, 893–899 DOI: 10.
1002/jpln.
200625199 893
Nitrogen retention and plant uptake on a highly weathered central
Amazonian Ferralsol amended with...
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2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co.
KGaA, Weinheim www.
plant-soil.
com
J.
Plant Nutr.
Soil Sci.
2008, 171, 893–899 DOI: 10.
1002/jpln.
200625199 893
Nitrogen retention and plant uptake on a highly weathered central
Amazonian Ferralsol amended with compost and charcoal
Christoph Steiner1,2*, Bruno Glaser1, Wenceslau Geraldes Teixeira3, Johannes Lehmann4, Winfried E.
H.
Blum5, and
Wolfgang Zech1
1 Institute of Soil Science and Soil Geography, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
2 Current address: Biorefining and Carbon Cycling Program, The University of Georgia, Athens, USA
3 Embrapa Amazonia Ocidental, CP 319–69011–970 Manaus, Brazil
4 Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
5 Institute of Soil Research, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU), 1180 Vienna, Austria
Abstract
Leaching losses of N are a major limitation of crop production on permeable soils and under
heavy rainfalls as in the humid tropics.
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