Soil organic carbon and total nitrogen under Leucaena leucocephala pastures in Queensland

Crop and Pasture Science

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 337-345

  Radrizzani, Alejandro ^a,b   Shelton, H Max ^b   Dalzell, Scott A ^a   Kirchhof, Gunnar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

carbon balance; carbon sequestration; greenhouse gas balance; permanent pastures; soil organic carbon; soil total nitrogen

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GRASSLAND SOIL; GREENHOUSE GAS; LEGUME; PASTURE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TOPSOIL;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

ANIMALIA; BOS; LEUCAENA; LEUCAENA HEDGEROWS; LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA;

EID: 79955119270     PISSN: 18360947     EISSN: 18365795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/CP10115     Document Type: Article

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