Cation exchange capacity of some tropical soils of Puerto Rico
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Black Carbon Increases Cation Exchange Capacity in Soils
Black Carbon (BC) may significantly affect nutrient retention and play a key role in a wide range of biogeochemical processes in soils, especially for nutrient cycling. Anthrosols from the Brazilian Amazon (ages between 600 and 8700 yr BP) with high contents of biomassderived BC had greater potential cation exchange capacity (CECmeasured at pH 7) per unit organic C than adjacent soils with low ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico
سال: 1969
ISSN: 2308-1759,0041-994X
DOI: 10.46429/jaupr.v35i2.12820