Abstract:
Most of the abandoned tea plantations in the Knuckles Conservation Forest (KCF) were converted into grasslands due to many biotic and abiotic stresses. The conversion of natural forests to grasslands causes drastic changes to the soil biota which result in less biodiverse and low productive soils. In this study, we investigated whether the establishment of native plants islands in the grassland with the presence of G. sepium as a shade plant and also with the application of Biofilmed Biofertilizer (BFBF) affect the fungal: bacterial ratio of degraded lands at KCF.
