Influence of cover crops on potential nitrogen availability to succeeding crops in a Southern Piedmont soil

Biology and Fertility of Soils

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 299-307

  Schomberg, Harry H ^a   Endale, Dinku M ^a   Calegari, Ademir ^b   Peixoto, Ricardo ^c   Miyazawa, Mário ^b   Cabrera, Miguel L ^d  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO AGRONÔMICO DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c EMBRAPA AGROBIOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION TILLAGE; COVER CROP; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; SOIL FERTILITY;

NORTH AMERICA; PIEDMONT [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

AVENA STRIGOSA; RAPHANUS SATIVUS; SECALE CEREALE; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM INCARNATUM;

EID: 33644836050     PISSN: 01782762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00374-005-0027-8     Document Type: Article

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