Contrasting grain crop and grassland management effects on soil quality properties for a north-central Missouri claypan soil landscape

Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 960-971

  Jung, Won Kyo ^b   Kitchen, Newell R ^a   Sudduth, Kenneth A ^a   Kremer, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b National Institute of Animal Science   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Claypan soils; Conservation reserve program; Cropping system; Landscape; Soil quality

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE MAX; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 57449091928     PISSN: 00380768     EISSN: 17470765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0765.2008.00314.x     Document Type: Article

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