Interaction of tree crops with a sodic soil environment: Potential for rehabilitation of degraded environments

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 81-93

  Garg, V K ^a  

^a CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Acacia nilotica; Biogeochemical characteristics; Dalbergia sissoo; India; Microbial activity; Prosopis juliflora; Rehabilitation of sodic soils; Sodic land; Terminalia arjuna

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; EXCHANGEABLE SODIUM PERCENTAGE; HUMUS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SODIC SOIL REHABILITATION; TREE SPECIES; WATER HOLDING CAPACITY;

CALCIUM; CARBON; CULTIVATION; DECOMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; FUNGI; IRON; MAGNESIUM; MICROORGANISMS; PH; SODIUM; SOILS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; REHABILITATION; SODIC SOIL; TREE SPECIES;

INDIA, UTTAR PRADESH, LUCKNOW, BANTHRA;

EID: 0031869156     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-145X(199801/02)9:1<81::AID-LDR267>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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