Short-term sequestration of slurry-derived carbon into particle size fractions of a temperate grassland soil.

Surface application of animal wastes in intensive grassland systems has caused growing environmental problems during the last decade and, therefore, increasing public and scientific concern. In the present study we examined if the natural abundance 13C stable isotope tracer techniques could be used to investigate a poorly defined aspect of waste application, i.e.

Quantification of priming and CO2 respiration sources following slurry-C incorporation into two grassland soils with different C content.

The fate of incorporated slurry-C was examined in a laboratory experiment using two UK grassland soils, i.e. a Pelostagnogley (5.