Nitrogen transformations, utilization, and conservation as affected by fallow tillage method

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 37-47

  Power, J F ^a,b   Peterson, G A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

15N; Fallow methods; N recovery; N cycle; Nitrate leaching; No till

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; DENITRIFICATION; FERTILIZER PRODUCTION; MINERALIZATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL EROSION; TILLAGE; TRANSFORMATION; VOLATILIZATION;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; FALLOW; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; TILLAGE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032541982     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-1987(98)00153-6     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Black, A.L., Power, J.F., 1965. Effect of chemical and mechanical fallow methods on moisture storage, wheat yields, and soil erodibility. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. Proc. 29, 465-4-68.
2. Broder, M.W., Doran, J.W., Peterson, O.A., Fenster, C.R., 1984. Fallow tillage influence on spring populations of soil nitrifiers, denitrifiers, and available nitrogen. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 48, 1060-1067.
3. 15nitrogen in shortgrass prairie. Ecology 58, 1322-1333.
4. Doran, J.W., 1987. Microbial biomass and mineralizable nitrogen distributions in no-tillage and plowed soils. Biol. Fertil. Soils 5, 68-75.
5. Doughty, J.L., Cook, F.D., Warder, F.G., 1954. Effect of cultivation on the organic matter and nitrogen of brown soils. Can. J. Agric. Sci. 34, 406-411.
6. Duley, F.L., Russel, J.C., 1939. The use of crop residues for soil and moisture conservation. J. Am. Soc. Agron. 31, 703-709.
7. Fenster, C.R., Peterson, G.A., 1979. Effects of no-tillage fallow as compared to conventional tillage in a wheat-fallow system. Nebraska Agric. Experiment Station Research Bulletin 289. 29 pp.
8. Haas, H.J., Evans, C.E., Miles, E.F., 1957. Nitrogen and carbon changes in Great Plains soils as influenced by cropping and soil treatments. USDA Tech. Bull. 1164, US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
9. Jenny, H., 1933. Soil fertility losses under Missouri conditions. Missouri Agric. Exp. Stn. Bull 324.
10. Lamb, J.A., Peterson, G.A., Fenster, C.R., 1985a. Wheat fallow tillage systems effects on a newly cultivated grassland soil's N budget. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 49, 352-356.
11. Lamb, J.A., Peterson, G.A., Fenster, C.R., 1985b. Fallow nitrate accumulation in a wheat-fallow rotation as affected by tillage system. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 49, 1441-1446.
12. Lamb, J.A., Doran, J.W., Peterson, G.A., 1987. Nonsymbiotic dinitrogen fixation in no-till and conventional wheat-fallow systems. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 51, 356-361.
13. Linn, D.M., Doran, J.W., 1984. Effect of water-filled pore space on carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide production in tilled and nontilled soils. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 48, 1267-1272.
14. Lyon, D.J., Stroup, W.W., Brown, R.E., 1998. Long-term tillage comparisons for winter wheat-fallow in the US Central Great Plains; Results from twenty-six years of crop management. Soil Tillage Res., (submitted).
15. Mielke, L.N., Wilhelm, W.W., Richard, K.A., Fenster, C.R., 1984. Soil physical characteristics of reduced tillage in a wheat-fallow system. Trans. Am. Soc. Agric. Engr. 27, 1724-1728.
16. Peterson, G.A., Schlegal, A.J., Tanaka, D.L., Jones, O.R., 1996. Precipitation use efficiency as affected by cropping and tillage systems. J. Prod. Agric. 9, 180-186.
17. Power, J.F., 1970. Leaching of nitrate-nitrogen under dryland agriculture in the Northern Great Plains. In: Relationship of Agriculture to Soil and Water Pollution. Cornell University Press, pp. 111-122.
18. Power, J.F., Wilhelm, W.W., Doran, J.W., 1986. Recovery of fertilizer nitrogen by wheat as affected by fallow method. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 50, 1499-1503.
19. Power, J.F., Mielke, L.N., Doran, J.W., Wilhelm, W.W., 1984. Chemical, physical, and microbial changes in tilled soils. In: Follett, R.H. (Ed.), Conservation Tillage. Great Plains Council Pub. No. 110, Great Plains Council, Lincoln, NE, pp. 157-171.
20. Prasad, R., Power, J.F., 1991. Crop residue management. Adv. Soil Sci. 15, 205-251.
21. Reicosky, D.L., Lindstrom, M.J., 1993. Fall tillage method: effect on short-term carbon dioxide flux. Agron. J. 85, 1237-1243.
22. Rice, C.W., Smith, M.S., 1983. Nitrification of fertilizer and mineralized ammonium in no-till and plowed soil. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 47, 1125-1129.
23. Salter, R.M., Green, T.C., 1933. Factors affecting the accumulation and loss of nitrogen and organic carbon in cropped soils. Agron. J. 25, 622-630.
24. Smika, D.E., Wicks, G.A., 1968. Soil water storage during fallow in the Central Great Plains as influenced by tillage and herbicide treatments. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. Proc. 32, 591-595.
25. Unger, P.W., McCalla, T.M., 1980. Conservation tillage systems. Adv. in Agron. 33, 1-58. Wilhelm, W.W., Mielke, L.N., Fenster, C.R., 1982. Root development of winter wheat as related to tillage practices in western Nebraska. Agron. J. 74, 85-88.
26. Zingg, A.W., Whitfield, C.J., 1957. A summary of research experience with stubble mulch farming in the western states. USDA Technical Bulletin No. 1166, 56 pp.