TY - JOUR A1 - Vogel, Christian A1 - Rivard, C. A1 - Tanabe, I. A1 - Adam, Christian T1 - Microspectroscopy – promising techniques to characterize phosphorus in soil T2 - COMMUNICATIONS IN SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT ANALYSIS N2 - Phosphorus (P) is an essential element for all forms of life and is applied as fertilizer in agriculture. The P availability for plants may be highly dependent on the chemical state of P in fertilizers and soils; however, the nature of this dependence remains obscure due to the limitations of generally applied wet chemical and instrumental analytical approaches. This paper focuses on recently developed infrared, Raman, ultraviolet and X-ray microspectroscopic techniques for the characterization of P in soil. Microspectroscopic techniques have the advantage that discrete P phases can be distinguished and characterized even if their mass fractions are very low. However, only small volumes of soil can be analyzed by microspectroscopic methods hence a combination of macro- and microspectroscopic techniques is a promising concept. KW - Infrared KW - Microspectroscopy KW - Phosphorus KW - Raman KW - Soil KW - Ultraviolet KW - X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) PY - 2016 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/38341 AN - OPUS4-38341 SN - 0010-3624 SN - 1532-2416 VL - 47 IS - 18 SP - 2088 EP - 2102 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany