Traffic and tillage effects on wheat production on the Loess Plateau of China: 1. Crop yield and SOM

Australian Journal of Soil Research

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 645-651

  Chen, Hao ^a   Bai, Yuhua ^a   Wang, Qingjie ^a   Chen, Fu ^a   Li, Hongwen ^a   Tullberg, J N ^b   Murray, J R ^b   Gao, Huanwen ^a   Gong, Yuanshi ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Controlled traffic; Soil organic matter; Wheat yield

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; COMPACTION; CROPS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

CONTROLLED TRAFFIC; CONTROLLED TRAFFICS; CONVENTIONAL TILLAGES; CROP YIELDS; DRYLAND FARMINGS; FARMING SYSTEMS; FIELD EXPERIMENTS; LOESS PLATEAUX; MICROBIAL BIOMASSES; MINIMUM TILLAGES; NUTRIENT LOSSES; RESIDUE COVERS; SOIL DEGRADATIONS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; SOIL PROFILES; SOIL STRUCTURES; TILLAGE EFFECTS; WHEAT PRODUCTIONS; WHEAT YIELD; ZERO TILLAGES;

SOILS;

CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; DRYLAND FARMING; FIELD METHOD; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL STRUCTURE; TILLAGE; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; WHEAT;

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

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 57349191829     PISSN: 00049573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SR07106     Document Type: Article

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