Acronym
3E004508
Code
3E04508T
Duration
01 October 2008 → 30 September 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Plant biology
- Soil sciences, challenges and pollution
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Agricultural and food sciences
- Agriculture, land and farm management
- Forestry sciences
Keywords
forest age
afforestation
tree species effect
agricultural landuse
phosphorus fractions
Project description
Afforestation of agricultural land is of current interest in Flanders (North Belgium) and Europe. The main objective of this research proposal is to study the tree-species dependent long-term changes in P fractions after afforesting agricultural land. The study will deliver a statistical model that predicts relationships between the P bioavailability and the proportion between different soil P fractions as a function of forest age and tree species.