Relationships between organic carbon fractions and physical properties of anargentine soil under three tillage systems

Pesquisa Agropecuaria Brasileira

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 981-986

  Cosentino, Diego ^a   Costantini, Alejandro ^a   Segat, Andrea ^a   Fertig, Matias ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Conventional tillage; Direct drilling; Macroaggregates; Microbial biomass carbon; Structural stability

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032368471     PISSN: 0100204X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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