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Bio-Char Soil Management on Highly Weathered
Soils in the Humid Tropics
Johannes Lehmann1
and Marco Rondon2
1
Cornell University, New York, USA
2
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), ColombiaQ1
CONTENTS
36.
1 Bio-Char Management and Soil...
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Bio-Char Soil Management on Highly Weathered
Soils in the Humid Tropics
Johannes Lehmann1
and Marco Rondon2
1
Cornell University, New York, USA
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International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), ColombiaQ1
CONTENTS
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2 Microbial Cycling of Nutrients in Soils with Bio-Char .
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3 Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Soils with Bio-Char.
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4 Slash-and-Char as an Alternative to Slash-and-Burn.
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1 Efficiency of Conversion.
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