Soil organic carbon pools and productivity relationships for a 34 year old rice-wheat-jute agroecosystem under different fertilizer treatments

Plant and Soil

Volumn 297, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 53-67

  Majumder, Bidisha ^a   Mandal, Biswapati ^b   Bandyopadhyay, P K ^b   Chaudhury, Jaladhi ^c  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b BIDHAN CHANDRA KRISHI VISWAVIDYALAYA   (India)

^c CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR JUTE AND ALLIED FIBRES   (India)

Author keywords

Carbon pools; Carbon stabilization; Crop productivity; Fertilization; Organic amendment

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; CROP PRODUCTION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; RICE; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL CARBON; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WHEAT;

CORCHORUS; CORCHORUS CAPSULARIS; CORCHORUS OLITORIUS; ORYZA SATIVA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 34548071691     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-007-9319-0     Document Type: Article

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