The influence of seabird manuring on the phosphorus status of Marion Island (Subantarctic) soils

✍ Scribed by Valdon R. Smith

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 229 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0029-8549
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00344842

✦ Synopsis

Manuring by penguins, wandering albatrosses and burrowing petrel and prion species substantially enhances P concentrations in Marion Island soils and plants. Non-manured soils contain low levels of plant-available P on a soil volume basis but the evidence suggests that the island soils are primarily deficient in N rather than P.