Long-term management impacts on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics of grazed bermudagrass pastures

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1809-1816

  Wright, Alan L ^a   Hons, Frank M ^a   Rouquette Jr , Francis M ^b  

^a Texas AandM University Health Science Center   (United States)

^b Texas AandM Univ Agric Res E   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon mineralization; Carbon sequestration; Nitrogen mineralization; Nitrogen sequestration; Soil organic C; Soil organic N

Indexed keywords

GRAZED BERMUDAGRASS PASTURES; SEQUESTRATION;

CARBON; FERTILIZERS; NITROGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

SOILS;

GRAZING; LAND MANAGEMENT; MINERALIZATION; PASTURE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL NUTRIENT;

BOS; BOS INDICUS; BOS TAURUS; CYNODON; CYNODON DACTYLON; LOLIUM; LOLIUM MULTIFLORUM; TRIFOLIUM;

EID: 4544252877     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2004.05.004     Document Type: Article

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