Horticultural additives influence peat biogeochemistry and increase short-term CO2 production from peat
Bidhya Sharma,
Tim R. Moore,
Klaus-Holger Knorr
et al.
Abstract:Aims
Peat is used as a major ingredient of growing media in horticulture. Peat extracted from bogs can be acidic and low in nutrient availability and is therefore mixed with liming agents, nutrients, surfactants, perlite and so on. This study aims to estimate the rates at which raw peat and the modified peat (‘growing media’) decompose to release carbon dioxide (CO2), to estimate the release of carbon (C) from liming agents and to estimate how peat biogeochemistry is changed.
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