Farm management, not soil microbial diversity, controls nutrient loss from smallholder tropical agriculture

Farm management, not soil microbial diversity, controls nutrient loss from smallholder tropical agriculture

Tropical smallholder agriculture supports the livelihoods of over 900 million of the world’s poorest people. This form of agriculture is undergoing rapid transformation in nutrient cycling pathways as international development efforts strongly promote greater use of mineral fertilizers to increase c...

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Main Authors: Stephen A Wood, Maya eAlmaraz, Mark Alexander Bradford, Krista L. McGuire, Shahid eNaeem, Christopher eNeill, Cheryl A. Palm, Katherine L. Tully, Jizhong eZhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Denitrification
Microbial Diversity
Tropics
GeoChip
carbon mineralization
Smallholder agriculture
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00090/full

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