Prairie Soil Organic Matter Shown To Be Resilient Under Intensive Agriculture
Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 21:28
in Earth & Climate
A recent study has confirmed that although there was a large reduction of organic carbon and total nitrogen pools when prairies were first cultivated and drained, there has been no consistent pattern in these organic matter pools during the period of synthetic fertilizer use, that is, from 1957-2002.