Impacts of long-term and recently imposed tillage practices on the vertical distribution of soil organic carbon

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 120-124

  Yang, X M ^a   Drury, C F ^a   Reynolds, W D ^a   Tan, C S ^a  

^a HARROW RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Mouldboard plough tillage; No tillage

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; AGRONOMY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON; CLAY MINERALS; ORGANIC CARBON; SOILS; WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONCOMITANT DECREASE; CORN-SOYBEAN ROTATION; MOULDBOARD PLOUGH TILLAGE; MOULDBOARD PLOUGHING; NET EFFECT; NO-TILLAGE; PROFILE DISTRIBUTIONS; RELATIVELY CONSTANT; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL PROFILING; SOIL-ORGANIC CARBON; TILLAGE PRACTICES; TOTAL AMOUNT; TOTAL CARBON; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ORGANIC CARBON; PLOWING; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; STRATIFICATION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; ZERO TILLAGE;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 49849088571     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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