Fertilizer application timing influences greenhouse gas fluxes over a growing season

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1569-1579

  Phillips, Rebecca L ^a   Tanaka, Donald L ^a   Archer, David W ^a   Hanson, Jon D ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL FERTILIZATION; APPLICATION TIMING; CROP YIELD; DRYLAND CROPPING SYSTEMS; FERTILIZER APPLICATIONS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GHG EMISSION; GHG FLUX; GROWING SEASON; MAIZE (ZEA MAYS L.); MICROBIAL PRODUCTION; NITROUS OXIDE; NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS; SHORT-TERM EFFECTS; TIME COURSE;

AGRICULTURE; ANESTHETICS; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; GREENHOUSES; METABOLISM; METHANE; NITROGEN OXIDES; PLANTS (BOTANY); TIME MEASUREMENT; UREA;

NITROGEN FERTILIZERS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; METHANE; NITROUS OXIDE; UREA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FARMING SYSTEM; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GAS ANALYSIS; GREENHOUSE GAS; GROWING SEASON; HARVEST; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; SOIL ANALYSIS; SPRING; TIME;

CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FERTILIZERS; GASES; SEASONS; SOIL; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 67650485653     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2008.0483     Document Type: Article

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