Code
01N00514
Duration
01 January 2014 → 31 October 2019
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Physical geography and environmental geoscience
- Plant biology
- Soil sciences, challenges and pollution
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Agricultural and food sciences
- Agricultural plant production
- Agriculture, land and farm management
- Horticultural production
Keywords
phosphorous fertilization
root biomass
soil organic carbon
Project description
In this project we investigate the contributions to soil C pools of roots vs. shoots, an aspect that has been mostly overlooked, although it appears a key factor driving the fate of plant tissue C either as mineralized CO2 or as stabilized soil C. The influence of P limitation to root proliferation and the C balance will be looked at.