Use of N immobilization to tighten the N cycle in conventional agroecosystems

Ecological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 648-662

  McSwiney, Claire P ^a   Snapp, Sieglinde S ^a   Gentry, Lowell E ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cereal rye; Cover crop; Maize; Nitrate; Nitrogen rate study; Nitrous oxide; Winter wheat

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITROGEN; NITROUS OXIDE;

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; COVER CROP; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; IMMOBILIZATION; MAIZE; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROUS OXIDE; SOIL NITROGEN;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; SOIL; WEATHER;

AGRICULTURE; BIOMASS; NITRATES; NITROGEN; NITROUS OXIDE; SOIL; WEATHER; ZEA MAYS;

SECALE CEREALE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77950896425     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0077.1     Document Type: Article

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