%0 Journal Article
%T Microbial Biomass Changes during Decomposition of Plant Residues in a Lixisol
%A Kachaka
%A SK.
%A Merckx
%A R.
%A Vlassak
%A K.
%J Tropicultura
%D 2003
%I Agri-Overseas
%X A lixisol was amended with four different alley cropping species: Senna siamea, Leucaena leucocephala, Dactyladenia barteri and Flemingia macrophylla. Soil samples were incubated for 140 days at 25 ˇăC and the soil microbial biomass was determined by the ninhydrin extraction method along the incubation period. The soil microbial biomass values ranged between 80 and 600 mg.kg-1 and followed, in all cases, the decreasing order: Leucaena> Senna> Flemingia> Dactyladenia.
%K Lixisol
%K Alley cropping
%K Microbial biomass
%K Incubation
%K Ninhydrin
%K D R C
%K Belgium
%U http://www.tropicultura.org/text/v21n1/28.pdf