Soil water retention as affected by tillage and residue management in semiarid Spain

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-27

  Bescansa, P ^a   Imaz, M J ^a   Virto, I ^a   Enrique, A ^a   Hoogmoed, W B ^b  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chisel ploughing; Conservation tillage; No tillage; Semi arid barley; Soil water retention; Stubble management

Indexed keywords

CLAY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMBUSTION; WATER;

CHISEL PLOUGHING; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; NO TILLAGE; SEMI-ARID BARLEY; SOIL WATER RETENTION; STUBBLE MANAGEMENT;

SOILS;

CROP RESIDUE; RETENTION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL WATER; STUBBLE; ZERO TILLAGE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

EID: 32644480124     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2005.02.028     Document Type: Article

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