Soil physical properties and infiltration after long-term no-tillage and ploughing on the Chinese Loess Plateau

New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 157-166

  He, Jin ^a   Wang, Qingjie ^a   Li, Hongwen ^a,b   Tullberg, J N ^c   McHugh, A D ^d   Bai, Yuhua ^a   Zhang, Xuemin ^a   McLaughlin, Neil ^e   Gao, Huanwen ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conservation tillage; Infiltration; Saturated hydraulic conductivity; Soil aggregates; Soil porosity; Soil water retention characteristics

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION TILLAGE; CROP PRODUCTION; FARMING SYSTEM; INFILTRATION; MONOCULTURE; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; PLOWING; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL QUALITY; SOIL WATER; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER USE EFFICIENCY; WHEAT; ZERO TILLAGE;

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

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 70349154297     PISSN: 01140671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01140670909510261     Document Type: Article

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