Assessment of soil microbial and enzyme activity in the rhizosphere zone under different land use/cover of a semiarid region, India

Abstract Background Land use/cover and management practices are widely known to influence soil organic matter (SOM) quality and quantity. The present study investigated the effect of different land use, i.e., forests viz. mixed forest cover (MFC), Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC-dominated forest cover (...

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Main Authors: Archana Meena, K. S. Rao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-03-01
Series:Ecological Processes
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-021-00288-3