Strategies to decrease nitrate leaching in the Brimstone Farm Experiment, Oxfordshire, UK, 1988-1993: The effects of winter cover crops and unfertilised grass leys

Plant and Soil

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 57-69

  Catt, J A ^a   Howse, K R ^a   Christian, D G ^a   Lane, P W ^a   Harris, G L ^b   Goss, M J ^c  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b ADAS BOXWORTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cereals; Clay soil; Grass ley; Net mineralisation; Nitrate leaching; Winter cover crops

Indexed keywords

CROP PRODUCTION; LEACHING; NITRATE;

EID: 0031729230     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004389426718     Document Type: Article

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