Subsoil improvement in a tropical coarse textured soil: Effect of deep-ripping and slotting

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 245-253

  Hartmann, Christian ^a   Poss, Roland ^b   Noble, Andrew D ^c   Jongskul, Apichart ^d   Bourdon, Emmanuel ^e   Brunet, Didier ^b   Lesturgez, Grégory ^f  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c IWMI SEA Regional Office for Southeast Asia   (Malaysia)

^d Thailand Land Development Department Bangkok   (Thailand)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^f CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Bulk density; Maize; Root frequency; Sand; Slotting; Slumping; Subsoil

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DENSITY OF LIQUIDS; SAND; SLOTTING; TEXTURES; TROPICS;

BULK DENSITY; MAIZE; ROOT FREQUENCY; SLUMPING; SUBSOILS;

SOILS;

ACRISOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROP PERFORMANCE; CROP ROTATION; LEGUME; MAIZE; PLOWING; ROOTING; SOIL IMPROVEMENT; SOIL TEXTURE; SUBSOIL; TILLAGE;

STYLOSANTHES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 43949121407     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2008.02.009     Document Type: Article

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