Distribution of light and heavy fractions of soil organic carbon as related to land use and tillage practice

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 92, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 53-59

  Tan, Z ^a   Lal, R ^a   Owens, L ^b   Izaurralde, R C ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c Joint Global Change Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Conventional tillage; Density fractionation; Heavy fraction; Light fraction; No till; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL TILLAGE; DENSITY FRACTIONATION; HEAVY FRACTION; LIGHT FRACTION; NO-TILL; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON;

CARBON; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); LAND USE; SEPARATION;

SOILS;

LAND USE; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL NITROGEN; TILLAGE;

EID: 33750002469     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2006.01.003     Document Type: Article

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