Nitrogen soil budgets in contrasting dairy grazing systems of southern Chile, a shortterm study

Revista de la Ciencia del Suelo y Nutricion Vegetal

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 170-183

  Nunez R P ^a   Demanet, R ^b   Alfaro, M ^c   Mora, M L ^b  

^a Dominican Republic Institute of Agricultural and Forest Research   (Dominica)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA   (Chile)

^c National Institute for Agricultural Research   (Chile)

Author keywords

Grazing; Nitrogen budgets; Nitrogen losses; Nitrogen use efficiency; Pasture

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049522355     PISSN: 0717635X     EISSN: 07182791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0718-27912010000200008     Document Type: Article

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