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Title: Effects of Monoculture, Crop Rotation, and Soil Moisture Content on Selected Soil Physicochemical and Microbial Parameters in Wheat Fields
Authors: A. Marais, M. Hardy
M. Booyse, A. Botha
Issue Date: 28-Aug-2012
Publisher: Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Citation: C. E. Pankhurst, “Evaluation of soil biological properties as potential bioindicators of soil health,” Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture , vol. 35, no. 7, pp. 1015–1028, 1995.
Series/Report no.: 2012;593623
Abstract: Different plants are known to have different soil microbial communities associated with them. Agricultural management practices such as fertiliser and pesticide addition, crop rotation, and grazing animals can lead to different microbial communities in the associated agricultural soils. Soil dilution plates, most-probable-number (MPN), community level physiological profiling (CLPP), and buried slide technique as well as some measured soil physicochemical parameters were used to determine changes during the growing season in the ecosystem profile in wheat fields subjected to wheat monoculture or wheat in annual rotation with medic/clover pasture. Statistical analyses showed that soil moisture had an over-riding effect on seasonal fluctuations in soil physicochemical and microbial populations. While within season soil microbial activity could be differentiated between wheat fields under rotational and monoculture management, these differences were not significant.
URI: http://repository.fuoye.edu.ng/handle/123456789/128
ISSN: 593623
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