Transcription of Chapter 7 Nutrient Leaching - Cornell University
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Chapter 7 Nutrient LeachingJ. LEHMANN1 ANDG. SCHROTH21 College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Department of Crop andSoil Sciences, Cornell University , 909 Bradfield Hall, Ithaca, NY14853, USA; 2 Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project,National Institute for Research in the Amazon (INPA), CP 478,69011 970 Manaus, AM, SynopsisNutrient Leaching is the downward movement of dissolved nutrients in thesoil profile with percolating water. Nutrients that are leached below therooting zone of the vegetation are at least temporarily lost from the system,although they may be recycled if roots grow deeper.
of nutrients from biomass than from mineral fertilizer. Snoeck (1995) applied 15N-enriched urea or biomass from either Leucaena leucocephala or Desmodium intortumthat was also enriched with 15N to coffee plants on an Oxisol in Burundi and measured the distribution of the nitrogen in undecomposed biomass, coffee plants and soil after 1 year ...
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