Soil property indices for assessing short-term changes in soil quality

Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 70-79

  Bell, Melissa C ^a   Raczkowski, C W ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Best management practices; Conventional tillage; Large scale systems research; Multidisciplinary research; No tillage; Organic; Soil function

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; ORGANIC FARMING; PH; SAMPLING; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL EMISSION; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL QUALITY; SOIL RESPIRATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TILLAGE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEMATODA; PSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 40249098916     PISSN: 17421705     EISSN: 17421713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1742170507001883     Document Type: Article

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