Conservation practices in US agriculture and their implication for global climate change

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 256, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 23-38

  Uri, Noel D ^a  

^a Com Carrier Bur Fed Commun C ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation practices; Conservation Reserve Program; Conservation tillage; Global climate change

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS; PUBLIC POLICY; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034702349     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(00)00462-9     Document Type: Article

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