Ploughing effects on soil organic matter after twenty years of conservation tillage in Lower Saxony, Germany

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 52, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 91-101

  Stockfisch, N ^a   Forstreuter, T ^b   Ehlers, W ^b  

^a Institute of Sugar Beet Research   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conservation tillage; Microbial biomass; Mouldboard ploughing; Organic matter decomposition; Soil nitrogen; Soil organic matter

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION TILLAGE; ORGANIC MATTER; PLOWING; SOIL CARBON;

GERMANY;

EID: 0032718237     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-1987(99)00063-X     Document Type: Article

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