Soil organic carbon, nutrients and relevant enzyme activities in particle-size fractions under conservational versus traditional agricultural management

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 152-159

  Qin, Shuping ^a,b   Hu, Chunsheng ^a   He, Xinhua ^c   Dong, Wenxu ^a   Cui, Junfang ^a,b   Wang, Ying ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservational agriculture; Particle size fractions; Soil enzyme activities; Soil nitrogen and phosphorus; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954145162     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2010.03.007     Document Type: Article

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