Soil structure and crop performance after 10 years of controlled traffic and traditional tillage cropping in the dryland loess plateau in China

Soil Science

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 113-119

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

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Controlled traffic; Crop performance; Dry land farming; Infiltration; Soil fertility

Indexed keywords

CROP PRODUCTION; DRYLAND FARMING; EARLY EARTH; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INFILTRATION; LOESS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PLATEAU; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL STRUCTURE; STRAW; TILLAGE;

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

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 67650486112     PISSN: 0038075X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SS.0b013e3181981ddc     Document Type: Article

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