Full Length Research Paper
References
Ako AA (2011). Hydrological Study on Ground Water in the Banana Plain and Mount Cameroon Area-Cameroon Volcanic Line (CVL). Japan: University of Kumamoto. |
|
Chen L, Smith P, Yang Y (2015). How has soil carbon stock changed over recent decades?. Global Change Biology 21(9):3197-3199. |
|
Chu H, Lin X, Fujii T, Morimoto S, Yagi K, Hu J, Zhang J (2007). Soil microbial biomass, dehydrogenase activity, bacterial community structure in response to long-term fertilizer management. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 39(11):2971-2976. |
|
Dick RP (1992). A review: long-term effects of agricultural systems on soil biochemical and microbial parameters. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 40(1-4):25-36. |
|
Jagadamma S, Lal R (2018). Distribution of organic carbon in physical fractions of soils as affected by agricultural management. Biology and Fertility of Soils 46(6):543-554. |
|
Jouzi Z, Azadi H, Taheri F, Zarafshani K, Gebrehiwot K, Van Passel S, Lebailly P (2019). Organic farming and small-scale farmers: Main opportunities and challenges. Ecological Economics 132: 144-154. |
|
Kallenbach C, Grandy AS (2011). Controls over soil microbial biomass responses to carbon amendments in agricultural systems: A meta-analysis. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 144(1):241-252. |
|
Ladd JN, Amato M (1989). Relationship between microbial biomass carbon in soils and absorbance (260 nm) of extracts of fumigated soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 21(3):457-459. |
|
Lal R, Follett RF, Stewart BA, Kimble JM (2007). Soil carbon sequestration to mitigate climate change and advance food security. Soil Science 172(12):943-956. |
|
Liang Y, Al-Kaisi M, Yuan J, Liu J, Zhang H, Wang L, Ren J (2021). Effect of chemical fertilizer and straw-derived organic amendments on continuous maize yield, soil carbon sequestration and soil quality in a Chinese Mollisol. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 314:107403. |
|
Logah V, Safo EY, Quansah C Danso I (2010). Soil microbial biomass carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics under different amendments and cropping systems in the semi-deciduous forest zone of Ghana. West African Journal of Applied Ecology 17(1). |
|
Luo P, Han X, Wang Y, Han M, Shi H, Liu N, Bai H (2015). Influence of long-term fertilization on soil microbial biomass, dehydrogenase activity, and bacterial and fungal community structure in a brown soil of northeast China. Annals of microbiology 65(1):533-542. |
|
Lupwayi NZ, Lafond GP, Ziadi N, Grant CA (2012). Soil microbial response to nitrogen fertilizer and tillage in barley and corn. Soil and Tillage Research 118:139-146. |
|
Lynch JM, Panting LM (1982). Effects of season, cultivation and nitrogen fertiliser on the size of the soil microbial biomass. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 33(3):249-252. |
|
Knapp BA, Ros M, Insam H (2010). Do composts affect the soil microbial community?. In Microbes at work (pp. 271-291). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. |
|
Kopittke PM, Dalal RC, Finn D, Menzies NW (2017). Global changes in soil stocks of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulphur as influenced by long?term agricultural production. Global Change Biology 23(6):2509-2519. |
|
McClaran MP, Moore-Kucera J, Martens DA, van Haren J, Marsh SE (2008). Soil carbon and nitrogen in relation to shrub size and death in a semi-arid grassland. Geoderma 145(1-2):60-68. |
|
Mohammadi K, Heidari G, Nezhad MTK, Ghamari S, Sohrabi Y (2012). Contrasting soil microbial responses to fertilization and tillage systems in canola rhizosphere. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences 19(3):377-383. |
|
Nair A, Ngouajio M (2012). Soil microbial biomass, functional microbial diversity, and nematode community structure as affected by cover crops and compost in an organic vegetable production system. Applied Soil Ecology 58:45-55. |
|
Ngosong C, Bongkisheri V, Tanyi CB, Nanganoa LT, Tening AS (2019). Optimizing nitrogen fertilization regimes for sustainable maize (Zea mays L.) production on the volcanic soils of Buea Cameroon. Advances in Agriculture, 2019. |
|
Rai AN (2018). Cyanobacteria in symbiosis. In CRC handbook of symbiotic cyanobacteria (pp. 1-7). CRC Press. |
|
Sparling GP, Feltham CW, Reynolds J, West AW, Singleton P (1990). Estimation of soil microbial C by a fumigation-extraction method: use on soils of high organic matter content, and a reassessment of the kEC-factor. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 22(3):301-307. |
|
Sparling GP, West AW (1988). A direct extraction method to estimate soil microbial C: calibration in situ using microbial respiration and 14C labelled cells. Soil biology and biochemistry 20(3):337-343. |
|
Sperow M, Eve M, Paustian K (2003). Potential soil C sequestration on US agricultural soils. Climatic Change 57(3):319-339. |
|
Wardle DA, Parkinson D (1990). Effects of three herbicides on soil microbial biomass and activity. Plant and soil 122(1):21-28. |
|
Wright AL, Hons FM, Matocha Jr JE (2015). Tillage impacts on microbial biomass and soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics of corn and cotton rotations. Applied Soil Ecology 29(1):85-92. |
|
Yeboah S, Zhang R, Cai L, Li L, Xie J, Luo Z, Wu J (2016). Tillage effect on soil organic carbon, microbial biomass carbon and crop yield in spring wheat-field pea rotation. Plant, Soil and Environment 62(6):279-285. |
Copyright © 2024 Author(s) retain the copyright of this article.
This article is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0