Rotational and cover crop determinants of soil structural stability and carbon in a potato system

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 175-183

  Po, Edgar A ^a   Snapp, Sieglinde S ^a   Kravchenko, Alexandra ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; BIOMASS; CROPS; FORESTRY; MINERALOGY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; PLANTS (BOTANY); RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; ROTATION; SAND; STABILITY;

AGGREGATE SIZES; COVER CROPS; CROPPING SYSTEMS; ENTRY POINTS; GEOREFERENCING; HAIRY VETCHES; INPUT SYSTEMS; IRRIGATED FIELDS; MACROAGGREGATES; MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; MEAN WEIGHTS; MICRO AGGREGATES; NITROGEN MINERALIZATIONS; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; POTATO TUBERS; RED CLOVERS; RESPONSE VARIABLES; SANDY SOILS; SECALE CEREALE; SIZE FRACTIONS; SNAP BEANS; SOIL STRUCTURAL STABILITIES; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; STABLE AGGREGATES; STRUCTURAL DEGRADATIONS; SWEET CORNS; TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE L.; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; VICIA VILLOSA; ZEA MAYS L.;

SOILS;

PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; SECALE CEREALE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; VICIA VILLOSA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 58149529863     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2008.0184     Document Type: Article

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