adding "carbon" to setaside fields

Journal of applied ecology 44(1): Feb 2007
Special Profile: Agroecology

R. Eschen et al added sucrose (from sugarbeet) sawdust and wood chips to plots near Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve (Oxfordshire) as a carbon source. The study confirms that the availability of inorganic nitrogen in the soil is reduced by the addition of carbon - the biomass of saprophytic fungi was raised. The fields had been taken out of arable cultivation in 1996 i.e. set-aside until 2001.
Pages 95-14
doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2006.01240.x

C. Carvell et al have a paper on bumble bee abundance (pp.29-40)
B.A. Woodcock et al have a paper on beetle diversity (pp.60-69)

(c) British Ecological Society 2006