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15N Tracing of Microbial Assimilation, Partitioning and Transport of Fertilisers in Grassland Soils

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The overall methodological approach of this thesis is to combine 15N-SIP mesocosm experiments with a field plot 15N tracing experiment in order to gain a better understanding of the microbial processing of fertiliser N in soils at a biomolecular level and relate this to the situation in a field environment in which physical partitioning and transport of N plays an important role.

Parts of this chapter have been adapted from Charteris et al. [1] (published by Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry under a CC BY 4.0 licence).

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Charteris, A. (2019). Sites, Sampling, Materials and Methods. In: 15N Tracing of Microbial Assimilation, Partitioning and Transport of Fertilisers in Grassland Soils. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31057-8_2

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