Neotropical savanna converted to food cropping and cattle feeding systems: Soil carbon and nitrogen changes over 30 years

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 184, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 17-32

  San José, José J ^a   Montes, Rubén A ^b   Rocha, Carlos ^b  

^a INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Agricultural practices; Orinoco llanos; Potentially mineralizable nitrogen; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; FERTILIZERS; FOOD PRODUCTS; NITRIFICATION;

FOOD CROPPING;

SOILS;

MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MINERALIZATION; SAVANNA; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; ULTISOL;

ORINOCO LLANOS; VENEZUELA;

BOS TAURUS; BRACHIARIA; BRACHIARIA DECUMBENS; UROCHLOA BRIZANTHA; VIGNA; VIGNA UNGUICULATA;

EID: 0043287002     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(03)00144-0     Document Type: Article

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