Tillage systems for a cotton-peanut rotation with winter-annual grazing: Impacts on soil carbon, nitrogen and physical properties

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 96, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 260-268

  Siri Prieto, Guillermo ^a   Reeves, D Wayne ^b   Raper, Randy L ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual grazing; No till; Soil compaction; Soil organic carbon; Soil quality

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FARMS; INFILTRATION; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; SOILS; VEGETATION;

ANNUAL GRAZING; SOIL COMPACTION; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL QUALITY;

CROPS;

COTTON; CROP ROTATION; GRAZING; LOAMY SAND; ORGANIC CARBON; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL QUALITY; TILLAGE;

ALABAMA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; AVENA SATIVA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; LOLIUM; LOLIUM MULTIFLORUM;

EID: 34848821253     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2007.06.010     Document Type: Article

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