Soil organic matter and water-stable aggregates under different tillage and residue conditions in a tropical dryland agroecosystem

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 229-241

  Kushwaha, C P ^a   Tripathi, S K ^a   Singh, K P ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Macroaggregates; Microaggregates; Microbial biomass; Residue retention; Tillage reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035104650     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-1393(00)00121-9     Document Type: Article

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