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Forestry 1973 46(1):39-47; doi:10.1093/forestry/46.1.39
© 1973 by Institute of Chartered Foresters
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Editorial

Some Short-term Effects of Lime and Fertilizers on a Sitka Spruce Plantation

II. Laboratory Studies on Litter Decomposition and Nitrogen Mineralization

S. N. ADAMS and I. S. CORNFORTH

Agricultural and Chemistry Department, Queen's University of Belfast, and Ministry of Agriculture Northern Ireland

Laboratory incubation experiments show that lime, applied in the field or immediately before incubating, increases the rate at which Sitka spruce needles and forest floor litter decompose. Increases in CO2 production caused by lime were accompanied by the rapid assimilation of both native and added mineral N. Added mineral N also increased CO2, produced from lime-treated spruce needles. Results are related to field data reported in the first paper of this series.


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