Restoring soil fertility of degraded hardsetting soils in semi-arid areas with different pastures

Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 507-514

  Chan, K Y ^a   Bowman, A M ^a   Smith, W ^a   Ashley, R ^a  

^a NSW AGRICULTURE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Available nitrogen; Eragrostis curvula; Friability; Medicago sativa; Soil structure

Indexed keywords

ALFISOL; PASTURE; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL FERTILITY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0034929473     PISSN: 08161089     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EA00052     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Brittle fracture of soil aggregates and the compaction of aggregate beds
2. Strength characteristics of a potentially hardsetting soil under pasture and conventional tillage in the semi-arid region of Australia
3. Infiltration problems of a hardsetting soil and possible amelioration measures
4. Amelioration of a degraded hardsetting soil using an anionic polymer conditioner
5. Changes in some physical properties of the surface of an impoverished red-brown earth under pasture
6. Amelioration of soil by natural processes
7. Methodology for determination of tensile strength of soil aggregates
8. Defining and assessing soil quality
9. Restorative crops for the amelioration of degraded soil conditions in New Zealand
10. The effect of management practices on soil organic matter dynamics
11. The structure profile under pasture
12. Changes in the nitrogen status and physical conditions of soils under pastures, with special reference to the maintenance of the fertility of Australian soils used for growing wheat
13. The effect of tillage on soil physical conditions
14. Labile organic matter fractions and aggregate stability under short-term, grass-based leys
15. Nitrogen - Availability indices
16. Improvement in the structural state of soils under leys
17. Managing a hardsetting soil by changing tillage practice
18. Hardsetting soils
19. Hardsetting soils: Behaviour, occurrence, and management
20. Total carbon, organic carbon and organic matter
21. Designs for disc permeameters
22. Changes in soil organic C, microbial C and aggregate stability under continuous maize and cereal cropping and after restoration to pasture in soils from the Manawatu region, New Zealand
23. Stabilisation of soil aggregates by root systems of ryegrass
24. The management of ryegrass to stabilise aggregates of red-brown earth
25. Organic matter and water stable aggregates in soils
26. Soil friability
27. Biological active soil organic matter fractions in sustainable cropping systems