Contemporary evidence of soil carbon loss in the U.S. corn belt

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2078-2086

  Senthilkumar, S ^a   Basso, B ^b   Kravchenko, A N ^a   Robertson, G P ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; BASELINE SOIL; CHISEL PLOWS; CLAY CONTENT; COMPLEX INTERACTION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; COVER CROPS; GRASSLAND SOILS; LONG-TERM EXPERIMENTS; MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; MICHIGAN; N FERTILIZATION; NO-TILL; OBSERVED DATA; SOIL CARBON; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL TEXTURES; SYSTEM APPROACH; TEMPORAL CHANGE;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; CLAY MINERALS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; EXPERIMENTS; MANAGEMENT; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; SOILS; TEXTURES; TOOLS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; CLAY SOIL; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GRASSLAND SOIL; MAGNESIUM; MAIZE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL EMISSION; SOIL TEXTURE; ZERO TILLAGE;

MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 72449130910     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2009.0044     Document Type: Article

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