Decomposition nutrient availability relations

Maturity is an important parameter for the nutrient management of compost N availability in compost is closely related to the maturity reached during composting (Bemal et al. 1998 Griffin and Hutchinson 2007). Larsen et al. (2007) found that anaerobically digested and composted municipal solid waste immobilized N in the initial stage of decomposition. The N immobilization in the composted municipal... 

The nature of life is determined by the surroundings in which the life forms must exist. Much of the environment in which organisms live is described by physical factors, including whether or not the surroundings are primarily aquatic or terrestrial. For a terrestrial environment, important physical factors are the nature of accessible soil and availability of water and nutrients. These are abiotic factors. There are also important biotic factors relating to the life forms present, their wastes and decomposition products, their availability as food sources, and their tendencies to be predatory or parasitic. 

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