Soil properties along cultivation and fallow time sequences on vertisols in northeastern Mexico

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 473-481

  Bravo Garza, Maria R ^a   Bryan, Rorke B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; CULTIVATION; DEGRADATION; NITROGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RAIN;

NATURAL REHABILITATION; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL PROPERTIES; TOTAL NITROGEN (TN); TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON (TOC);

SOILS;

FALLOW; SOIL PROPERTY; VERTISOL;

AGRICULTURE; CULTIVATION; DEGRADATION; RAIN; SOIL;

MEXICO [MEXICO (NTN)]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 15744389430     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2005.0473     Document Type: Article

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