Traffic and tillage effects on wheat production on the Loess Plateau of China: 2. Soil physical properties

Australian Journal of Soil Research

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 652-658

  Bai, Yuhua ^a   Chen, Fu ^a   Li, Hongwen ^a   Chen, Hao ^a   He, Jin ^a   Wang, Qingjie ^a   Tullberg, J N ^b   Gong, Yuanshi ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Controlled traffic; Soil physical properties

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; HUMIDITY CONTROL; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PLANNING; STRATEGIC PLANNING; WATER CONTENT;

AVAILABLE WATER CONTENTS; CONTROLLED TRAFFIC; CONTROLLED TRAFFICS; CONVENTIONAL TILLAGES; DRYLAND; DRYLAND FARMINGS; FARMING SYSTEMS; FIELD EXPERIMENTS; LOESS PLATEAUX; MACRO POROSITIES; MESO POROSITIES; MINIMUM TILLAGES; NO TILLAGES; ON CURRENTS; REDUCED SOILS; RESIDUE COVERS; SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITIES; SOIL DEGRADATIONS; SOIL LAYERS; SOIL PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENTS; TILLAGE EFFECTS; TOTAL POROSITIES; WHEAT PRODUCTIONS;

SOILS;

BULK DENSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; DRYLAND FARMING; FIELDWORK; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; POROSITY; SOIL DEGRADATION; SUSTAINABILITY; TILLAGE; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; WATER CONTENT; WHEAT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 57349182781     PISSN: 00049573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SR07193     Document Type: Article

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