The role of chemical and organic fertilizers on yield, yield variability and carbon sequestration- results of a 19-year experiment

Plant and Soil

Volumn 331, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 471-480

  Yan, Xiaoyuan ^a   Gong, Wei ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b SICHUAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Long term experiment; Roth C model; Yield trend; Yield variability

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; FERTILIZER; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; WHEAT;

CHINA;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 77952421093     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-009-0268-7     Document Type: Article

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