Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Journal of Young Scientist", Vol. 3
Written by Mihai FRINCU, Corina DUMITRACHE, Andrei Cristian DUMITRIU
Soil is an important component of all terrestrial ecosystems as well as fundamental resource in the agricultural production system that why monitoring of soil fertility is an important objective for the sustainable agro-ecosystems development. Changes in its physical, chemical and biological properties must be taken into account, in order to evaluate soil fertility. Biological indicators are suitable tools for predicting and assessing soil changes that are caused by both natural and anthropogenic factors. Among the biological features, soil enzymes are often used as indicator of soil fertility because they are very sensitive and respond to changes in soil management more quickly than other soil variables. In this respect, the objective of this paper was to determine enzyme activity of the soil from USAMV – Bucharest orchard in order to evaluate its fertility.
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