Cropping system and residue management effects on nitrate leaching and crop yields

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 68, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 73-84

  Thomsen, Ingrid K ^a   Christensen, Bent T ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cropping system; Nitrate leaching; Straw; Sugarbeet top

Indexed keywords

BARLEY; CROP YIELD; CROPPING SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION; LEACHING; NITRATE; PLANT GROWTH; RYE GRASS; STRAW; SUGAR BEET; WHEAT;

CROP RESIDUE; CROPPING SYSTEM; NITRATE LEACHING; NITROGEN; YIELD;

BETA VULGARIS; BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; LOLIUM; SECALE CEREALE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0031956023     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8809(97)00134-5     Document Type: Article

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