Comparing nematode and earthworm communities under combinations of conventional and conservation vegetable production practices

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 42-50

  Overstreet, Laura F ^a   Hoyt, Greg D ^b   Imbriani, Jack ^c  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation tillage; Earthworms; Nematodes; Organic production; Rotation; Strip tillage

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION TILLAGE; EARTHWORMS; NEMATODES; ORGANIC PRODUCTION; STRIP TILLAGE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; ROTATION; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; VEGETABLES;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY;

ABUNDANCE; ACRISOL; AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP ROTATION; EARTHWORM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRUIT; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; NEMATODE; ORGANIC FARMING; SAMPLING; SOIL FAUNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TILLAGE; VEGETABLE;

UNITED STATES;

INVERTEBRATA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NEMATODA; SOLANUM;

EID: 77956185647     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2010.06.009     Document Type: Article

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