Soil carbon stocks under no-tillage mulch-based cropping systems in the Brazilian Cerrado: An on-farm synchronic assessment

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 187-195

  Neto, Marcos Siqueira ^a   Scopel, Eric ^b,c   Corbeels, Marc ^b,c   Cardoso, Alexandre Nunes ^c   Douzet, Jean Marie ^b   Feller, Christian ^d   Piccolo, Marisa de Cássia ^a   Cerri, Carlos C ^a   Bernoux, Martial ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b CIRAD   (France)

^c EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Chronosequence; Cover crops; Intensive agriculture; Oxisols; Tropics

Indexed keywords

BRAZILIAN CERRADO; CEREAL CROP; CERRADO; CHRONOSEQUENCES; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; COVER CROPS; CROPPING SYSTEMS; FIELD SURVEYS; GLYCINE MAX; HIGH POTENTIAL; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; NO TILLAGE; OXISOLS; REGIONAL LEVELS; REGIONAL SCALE; SILT CONTENTS; SOIL CARBON STOCK; SOIL ORGANIC C; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; STORAGE POTENTIAL; SYSTEM SURVEY; THREE PHASIS; TOP-SOIL LAYER; TROPICAL CONDITIONS; ZEA MAYS;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; CROPS; NITROGEN FIXATION; ORGANIC CARBON; SILT; SURVEYS; TROPICS; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOME; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COVER CROP; CROPPING PRACTICE; FIELD SURVEY; HUMID TROPICS; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; MAIZE; MULCH; OXISOL; SAVANNA; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOYBEAN; ZERO TILLAGE;

BRAZIL;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77956229125     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2010.07.010     Document Type: Article

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