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Efforts to increase forest productivity have resulted in a need for fertilizers. Mostly energy-consuming synthetic fertilizers are used. At the same time sewage plants produce an increasing amount of sludge with a high nutrient concentration, especially nitrogen. This sludge has become a disposal problem but it could instead be used as fertilizer in forests.
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Bramryd, T. (1980). Sewage Sludge Fertilization in Pine Forests: Ecological Effects on Soil and Vegetation. In: Trudinger, P.A., Walter, M.R., Ralph, B.J. (eds) Biogeochemistry of Ancient and Modern Environments. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48739-2_44
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