
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Probert, M.E. 
A1  - Moody, P. W. 
T1  - Relating phosphorus quantity, intensity, and buffer capacity to phosphorus uptake
JF  - Soil Research
JO  - Soil Res.
Y1  - 1998
VL  - 36
IS  - 3
SP  - 389
EP  - 394
KW  - modelling, sorption.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/S97107 
N2  - The short-term (25 days) phosphorus (P) uptake by maize has been reported to be most strongly correlated with measurements of P intensity in soil. Correlations of P uptake with bicarbonate-extractable P (a measure of the quantity factor) were improved when indices of P buffer capacity were included, but not to the extent obtained with the direct measure of P intensity. Thus, one might infer that measurements of the quantity factor and P buffer capacity were less satisfactory for describing P availability. It is now shown that this conclusion results entirely from the model fitted to the data. By using a multiplicative rather than additive model, it is shown that bicarbonate-extractable P in combination with measures of P buffer capacity can describe the P uptake data equally as well as a direct measurement of P intensity. 
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