Long term fertilization effects on soil organic carbon pools in a sandy loam soil of the Indian sub-Himalayas

Plant and Soil

Volumn 341, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 109-124

  Bhattacharyya, Ranjan ^a   Kundu, Samaresh ^b   Srivastva, Anil Kumar ^a   Gupta, Hari Shankar ^c   Prakash, Ved ^a   Bhatt, Jagdish Chandra ^a  

^a VIVEKANANDA INSTITUTE OF HILL AGRICULTURE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE   (India)

^c INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Carbon retention in soil; Farmyard manure application; Indian Himalayas; Labile and recalcitrant pools; Rainfed soybean wheat rotation; Soil organic C fractions

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; CROP ROTATION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GLOBAL WARMING; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MANURE; MITIGATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; SANDY LOAM; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOYBEAN; WHEAT;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA;

GLYCINE MAX; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 79952623726     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-010-0627-4     Document Type: Article

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