Research Article
Survival Rates of Microbial Communities from Livestock Waste to Soils: A Comparison between Compost and Digestate
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Changes in chemical and microbial properties in soils among treatments: control without fertilizer (Con), chemical fertilizer (Che), digestate + reduced chemical fertilizer (Dig), wheat straw compost + reduced chemical fertilizer (Whe), and woodchip compost + reduced chemical fertilizer (Woo). (a) NH4+-N concentrations, (b) NO3−-N concentrations, (c) pH, and (d) log10 (bacterial gene abundance·g−1 dry soil) during the 14 weeks pot experiment. Data are shown as mean ± SD (n= 4). The results from the Kruskal–Wallis test were shown above values on each week of each figure. “∗∗” and “∗” stand for the significance level of and , respectively.
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